This article is part personal narrative, exploration of alienation. By tracing my own journey, I have been able to identify, both on a and professional level, the effects (real or perceived) exclusion from given discourse community may have. looked at ways in which even one's language can be experienced as 'foreign' how this affect self esteem. reflected experiences return UK (and particular higher education) after more than decade abroad, by recording thoughts feelings students subject...

This paper is based on an interview with Ken Gale in which he talks about his experiences of collaborative writing and the ways Deleuzian concepts such as ‘rhizome’, ‘lines flight’, ‘nomad’, ‘fold’ ‘body without organs’ have informed inspired research practice. The potential for how these could help offering a new cartography learning development also explored

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This paper attempts to exemplify an emergent doctoral research process that plugs into the political activism of Deleuze and Guattari’s “becoming minoritarian” transformational potential Erin Manning’s “minor gesture.” Revisiting responding texts images produced over course one month, author demonstrate how attentiveness openness beyond bounds traditional thesis can generate shiftings shimmerings have produce tangible impacts affects. In a writing human nonhuman matter she encounters on her...

In this piece, the writer offers up a tentative exemplification of how reframing thesis in terms what it can do rather than is has potential to generate joyful-artful engagement with PhD process and engender more response-able relationship world. By refusing engage dis-abling processes prescribed by institutional expectations doctoral study, act writing emerges as powerful antidote constraints neoliberal, neurotypical, university. Exploring mode expression that intertwines text image, enacts...