“Why not suppose that thinking is not in alignment with the world and not upright in character, that it can be contrary toward things outside of itself and can be playful and ill-mannered as well as upright? Under this set of contestable assumptions, thinking becomes a conglomeration of intentions, leaps, intensities, trace elements, and accidents, out of which emerge the surprises that temporarily jar humans out of the stupor of their duly sequential representing and recognizing.”
Bennett, Jane. ‘The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics’. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. p52-53
The framework for The Promise of a Scattered Methodology evolved in 2016, while exploring a method to decentre things, wherein matters could collide and coalesce.
Formed from a mashup between Jean-Francois Lyotard’s ‘petit recits / little narratives’ (The Postmodern Condition, 1979) and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1987), The Promise of a Scattered Methodology is simultaneously both a celebration and a shattering of the tenuous relationships between things, where pop-up messages serve as loose ends rather than dead ends and reflections on matters are loosely configured for connections to be discovered.