#021
Becoming-Bricoleur
Hope as Transdisciplinary Process
Through the combination of extracts from our works, we have identified hope and promise as an injunction operating on at least three different levels. Firstly, each respective work deals explicitly with notions of affect, promise and power. Secondly, offering merely a glimpse of each respective work, we make manifest the paradoxical logic of every promise of fullness, which can only remain a force of affect as long as it remains incomplete. Promise necessitates reduction and incompletion, it thrives in the imaginary, in the parts, and not in the finality of the whole. Thirdly, our collaborative process is engendered by the over-arching promise of transdisciplinarity and the idea that the merger of perspectives ‘opens up’ new possibilities, not only onto the collaborating subjects of the past, but to the potential collaborative subjects of the future.
Key to this process is the notion of the bricoleur; the idea that the possibility of change comes not through the invention of newness, but through the assemblage of images, signs and actions into different relations.
Conference poster, with Olof Sjölund and Claes Wrangel.
Presented
→ Popular Culture and World Politics, Rovaniemi. November 2011.