Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, And Future Perspectives

Series Editor’s Preface
References
Foreword
In Search of The Postdigital: A Conversation with ChatGPT
Reference
Introduction
Why This Book?
What’s in the Book?
Part I: What Is Postdigital?
Part II: Postdigital Research
Part III: Postdigital Sensibilities
Part IV: Postdigital Agencies
How to Use This Book?
The Postdigital Science and Education Publishing Ecosystem
This Is Not a Blueprint
References
Acknowledgements
Republished Chapters
The CUC 2022 – Opening in a Closed World: Postdigital Science and Education Conference
Contents
About the Editors
About the Authors
Part I: What Is Postdigital?
Postdigital Research: Genealogies, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
1 What Binds Us Together?
2 A Brief Genealogy
3 Against Definitions
4 The Curious Dance Between Epistemology and Methodology
5 An Invitation to Dialogue
References
Histories of the Postdigital
1 Introduction
2 What’s in a Concept?
3 Postdigital Arts and Humanities
4 Postdigital Science and Education
4.1 Postdigital Science and Education Journal
5 Special Issues in Postdigital Science and Education
6 Postdigital Science and Education Book Series
6.1 Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education
7 What Makes Us Different?
8 Conclusion
9 Epilogue: Invitation for Discussion and Received Commentary
9.1 Invitation for Discussion
10 Received Commentary
10.1 Eamon Costello
10.2 Sean Sturm
10.3 Anonymous Responders
10.4 Response to Received Commentary
References
Towards a Theory of Postdigital Parity
1 Introduction
2 Postdigitalism’s Pedigree
2.1 Nicholas Negroponte
2.2 Posthumanism
2.3 Music Theory and the Arts
3 Radical Non-Human/Human Symmetry
4 Anti-Theory or Theory
5 Relative Equality of the Digital/Predigital
6 In Pursuit of Postdigital Parity
7 Three Candidate Theories
7.1 Com-Post
7.2 Cybernetics/Systems Theory
7.3 Transaction
8 Pluralism and Parity in Postdigital Research
References
Postdigital/More-Than-Digital: Ephemerality, Seclusion, and Copresence in the University
1 Introduction
2 Origins of the Postdigital
3 Inseparability/Permeation/Ubiquity, and Twine
4 Separability and Tangible Absence
5 Networked Learning
6 The Meshwork
7 Ephemerality, Seclusion, and Copresence
7.1 Ephemerality
7.2 Seclusion
7.3 Copresence
8 Fugitive Practices
9 Boltholes and Breathing Spaces
10 More-Than-Digital
11 Conclusions
References
Part II: Postdigital Research
Mapping and Tracing the Postdigital: Approaches and Parameters of Postdigital Research
1 Prologue
2 Introduction
3 Different Lenses of a Postdigital View
4 Mapping and Tracing the Postdigital
5 Postdigital Inquiry and Research as Creative
6 Ontologies: Locating a Postdigital Tradition While Encouraging Interdisciplinarity
7 Ingredients for Postdigital Research
7.1 An Essential Ingredient for Postdigital Research: An On-Yet-Around Focus
7.2 Desirable Ingredients
7.2.1 Including Diverse Voices and Perspectives
7.2.2 Fostering Transdisciplinarity
7.2.3 Working Creatively, Speculatively, and Compositionally
7.3 What Makes Good Postdigital Research?
8 Conclusions
References
Big Bioinformational Education Sciences: New Biodigital Methods and Knowledge Production in Education
1 Introduction
2 Bioinformation and Education
3 Big Bioinformational Education Sciences
4 Biodigital Methods
5 Bioinformational Knowledge
6 Conclusion
References
Historical Materialism: A Postdigital Philosophical Method
1 Introduction
2 Base-Superstructure as a Temporal Metaphor
3 From the Metaphor to Action
4 The Lonely Hour of the Economy Never Comes
5 The Biology and Science of Historical Materialism
6 An Apathetic Method
7 Conclusion
References
Postdigital Practical Axiology
1 Introduction
2 Hyperspecialisation, Tacit Knowledge, and Education’s ‘Codification Bottleneck’
3 Modelling Tacit Knowledge in Education and Industry
4 Postdigital Research as Catalysis: Powerful Disrupters and Effective Organisation
5 Values and Distinctions in Education
6 Liminal Dynamics
7 Individuation
8 The Logic of Postdigital Betweenness
9 Conclusion: Good Regulators and Models of Good Regulators
References
Part III: Postdigital Sensibilities
Postdigital Research in Education: Towards Vulnerable Method and Praxis
1 Introduction
2 Mess and Uncertainty
3 (Re)Conceptualising Vulnerability in and for Postdigital Times
4 Towards a Framework for Vulnerable Method
4.1 Praxis-Oriented and Reflexive
4.2 Relational and Collaborative
4.3 Radically Multiple
4.4 Emancipatory
5 Testing the Framework Retrospectively: Two Research Examples
6 Conclusion: Towards Postdigital Vulnerability
References
Caring Cuts: Unfolding Methodological Sensibilities in Researching Postdigital Worlds
1 Introduction
2 Researching Postdigital Worlds
2.1 Educational Posthumanist Research
2.2 Postdigital Education
2.3 More-Than-Digital Methodologies
3 Unfolding Relational Materialism
3.1 Matters of Care: Non-innocent and Generative Potentials
3.2 Cuts as the Temporary Manifestation of Matter
3.3 Caring Cuts: Sensibilities of the Making of Researchable Worlds
4 Methodological Sensibilities: Putting Caring Cuts to Work
4.1 Example 1: Trust and Modest Interruptions with Research Technologies
4.2 Example 2: Uneventful Research Events with Educational Technology
5 Caring Cuts for Thinking/Researching/Doing Digital Worlds Anew
References
Vestigial Research for Postdigital Pataphysics
1 Introduction
2 The Postdigital as Expenditure
3 Protocols for Nonknowledge
4 The Acéphalic Researcher
5 David Cronenberg: Images of Postdigital, Achephalic Research
6 Conclusion
References
Part IV: Postdigital Agencies
Postdigital Research and Human Agency
1 Introduction
2 The Metaverse
3 Difference, Determination, and Opposition
4 The Logic of Incarnation
5 Robot Rights
6 Robot Agency
7 Distributed Agency
8 An Alternative Ontology
9 Assemblages
10 Conclusion
References
Researching With, On, In and Through the Postdigital: Accounting for More-Than-Humanness
1 Introduction
2 Methodological Assemblings
3 Attuning to More-Than-Humanness
3.1 Taking Your AI Out for Coffee: Possible Overtures?
3.2 Re-Thinking Human-Digital Relations: More Speculative and Provisional?
3.3 Becoming with: Articulating More-Than-Humanness?
4 Conclusion
References
Collective Writing: The Continuous Struggle for Meaning-Making
1 Introduction: Herding Cats, Building Narratives (Petar Jandrić)
1.1 Methodology
1.2 Synthesis
1.3 Herding Cats, Building Narratives
2 Praxis and Methodology of Collective Writing (Timothy W. Luke)
3 Openness to Collective Writing; Collective Writing as Openness… (Sean Sturm)
4 Collective Writing and Academic Labour (Peter McLaren)
5 Collective Writing and Peer Co-production, Peer Review, and Peer Systems of Control (Liz Jackson)
6 Collective Writing as a Form of Relational Epistemology Without Foundations (Alison MacKenzie)
7 Collective Writing as Data (Marek Tesar)
8 Repositories of Indigenous Knowledge and Identity (Georgina Tuari Stewart)
9 Collective Writing as an Ethical System: Trust, Integrity, and Collegiality (Peter Roberts)
10 Collective Writing as an Emancipatory Practice (Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield)
11 Collective Writing as Positionality (Sarah Hayes)
12 Collective Writing and the Collective Public Ownership of Production and Idea-Generation: Knowledge Socialism in Terms of Different Relationships Between the University and Society (Jimmy Jaldemark)
13 Conclusion: Collective Writing, Openness, and Co(labor)ation: Collective Research, Writing, and Pedagogy in an Era of Knowledge Socialism (Michael A. Peters)
14 Review 1: Showing the Workings of Collaborative Writing (Christine Sinclair)
15 Review 2: Good Game/Got Game/Game On/Game Over (Andrew Gibbons)
Appendix 1 Workflow
Appendix 2 Reading List
References
Afterword: So, What *Is* Postdigital Research?
References
Index