A nomadic journey through blogging

Veronica MitchellEducation Development Unit

Health Sciences FacultyUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa

Deleuze & Guattari & Africa

Conference

University of Cape Town July 2015

PhD Research project

Supervisors: Dr Michael Rowe & Prof Vivienne Bozalek

Funding: National Research Foundation

The medical undergraduate curriculum immerses students into a weak health system

where abuse, neglect and disrespect are prevalent

Developing a socially-just pedagogy in Obstetrics

Why blogging?

Images & Text

Openness

A nomadic subjectivity in transposition constitutes the possibility of weaving together different strands and indicates (as in music)

“variations and shifts of scale in discontinuous but harmonious patterns”

Braidotti, 2006:5

Images

Segmentarity

Rhizomatic …

It is anti-genealogical, with a multiplicity of connections and dimensions,

not constrained through bureaucracy rather a process that

“acts on desire by external productive outgrowths”

Deleuze & Guattari 1987:14

Beyond arborescent thinking

A changing educational landscape

Fascicular root-thinking

The assemblage

an affective flow

Posthumanism perspective

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heterogenity multiplicit

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connection

connection

heterogenity

multiplicity

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"the map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in on itself;

it constructs the unconscious. It fosters connections between fields ...

[as it is] open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible,

susceptible to constant modification".

Deleuze and Guattari 1987:12

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my becoming-researcher, becoming-art-creator,

becoming-iPad contrasts with the established majoritarian assemblages that

foreground binaries such as self/other and

researcher/data

Clark 2012

Conclusion

Valuable insights

gained through

Deleuze & Guattari concepts

Conclusion

Thank You

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Braidotti, R. 2006. Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Clark, V. 2012. Art practice as possible worlds. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2012) 2 & 3: 198–213.

Deleuze, G., & Guattari. F. 1987. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia.Trans. B. Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Sellers, M. 2013. Young children becoming curriculum: Deleuze, Te Wharriki and curricular understandings. Routledge.

My blog http://phd4veronica.blogspot.com/