00:29:52 George Rowley (they/them): You can keep an eye out for upcoming events here: https://postqualitativeresearch.com/upcoming-events/ 00:41:07 George Rowley (they/them): ⁠⁠Reading: https://postqualitativeresearch.com/2024/01/23/doing-the-glossary/ 00:43:54 Anna Pilson (she/her): Bozalek and Zembylas (2017, p. 116): In reflexivity, there is a researcher as an independent subject who is actually the locus of reflection, whereas in diffraction there is no such distinction as subjects and objects are always already entangled. Thus, from a diffractive perspective, subjects and objects such as nature and culture are not fixed referents for understanding the other but should be read through one another as entanglements. 00:50:42 Anna Pilson (she/her): I like Bronwyn Davies' notion of emergent listening 00:51:07 Synnøve Kvile: Reacted to "I like Bronwyn Davie..." with ❤️ 00:51:12 Sally Brown: Reacted to "I like Bronwyn Davie..." with ❤️ 00:53:44 George Rowley (they/them): Footnote Barad 2014, p.187 ftn 63 (as referred to on page 55) This is one way in which diffraction might be contrasted with (some forms of) critique, which is not to suggest that diffractive analysis does not have anything in common with critique, although questions of temporality and ontology figure differently. As Foucault points out, in ‘What is Critique?’ (1978), critique is not one thing, but ‘seems to be condemned to dispersion, dependency and pure heteronomy’ (Michel Foucault, ‘What is Critique?’, in The Politics of Truth, edited by Sylvere Lotringer (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e) 2007), p.25). 00:53:50 George Rowley (they/them): Diffraction is indebted to forms of critical analysis such as those put forward by Marx, Nietzsche and Foucault. Indeed, both critique and diffractive analysis consider fundamental taking account of the (material-discursive) conditions of possibility in their historical-social- political-(naturalcultural) contingency. However, whereas critique operates in a mode of disclosure, exposure and demystification (see Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003)), diffractive reading might be understood as a form of affirmative engagement.  Diffraction is an iterative practice of intra-actively reworking and being reworked by patterns of mattering. A diffractive methodology seeks to work constructively and deconstructively (not destructively) in making new patterns of understanding-becoming. 00:56:16 George Rowley (they/them): Reacted to "I like Bronwyn Davie..." with ❤️ 00:56:19 George Rowley (they/them): Reacted to "I like Bronwyn Davie..." with ‼️ 01:00:12 Charlotte: I can see the difference 01:00:35 Sally Brown: Yes, it's a completely different way of reviewing. 01:03:43 George Rowley (they/them): I find myself wondering “what is being diffracted through what” in this review? Perhaps because I have encountered this methodology in terms of texts. Maybe it doesn’t have to be x diffracted through y? 01:06:47 Sally Brown: It seems like a move away from the reviewer as expert to a "listening to the data" to help the author discover what is new. 01:07:22 Nobonke van Tonder: Is diffraction a kind of neutrality of ontology in listening? 01:08:53 Nobonke van Tonder: Does diffraction require a resourceful psychological condition? 01:09:45 Priya Sharma: Reacted to It seems like a move... with "❤️" 01:09:57 Nobonke van Tonder: Are artistic processes automatically diffractive? 01:10:01 Sylvia Kind: Reacted to "It seems like a move..." with ❤️ 01:15:08 Charlotte: It assumes an omnipresence 01:20:01 Charlotte: Reacted to "It seems like a move..." with ❤️ 01:20:29 Charlotte: The diffractive re-viewer just seems more ethical 01:20:52 Charlotte: Replying to "The diffractive re-v..." Just... better 01:21:51 Elizabeth Blake: could transindividual be considered through Barad's timespacemattering 01:23:44 Ruth Churchill Dower: Reacted to "could transindividua..." with 👍🏻 01:50:22 Sally Brown: Thank you very much! I enjoyed my first session. 01:50:39 Nobonke van Tonder: Next week’s reading? 01:50:50 Charlotte: This is amazing! 01:50:50 Ruth Churchill Dower: Great thinking-with everyone - thank you 🙏 01:50:53 Hannah: Thank you 01:50:53 Verlyne: Thank you! 01:50:57 Anna Pilson (she/her): THANK YOU! 01:50:58 Mimosa: Thanks everyone 01:51:02 Mariana: Thank you!