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When the world is understood as not consisting of fixed, clearly bounded, individual “things”, but rather as emerging phenomena in constant states of becoming- the world can no longer be understood to consists of “inter” dependent parts to a whole.

It rather starts performing through “intra” dependent relationships that are with-in themselves generative of “wholeness”.

Such wholeness no longer separates subjects (meaning-makers) from objects (observable phenomena), but considers these as co-constitutive.

We cannot know the world independent from ourselves.

Wayfaring and the Knowledge-Land-Scape[edit]

In fact, we (you, I and many others) have already started to move forward alongside each other in our emergent processes of becoming knowledgeable together.

Qamutik traces in the snow (photograph by de Wildt, 2023)

The company for us to be- and think with in this knowledge-land-scape varies, but emerges for a large part from the encounters I had as I threaded my way through my fieldwork in the hamlets of Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven) and Salliq (Coral Harbour) of Kitikmeot- and Kivalliq regions in the territory of Nunavut respectively.

Possibilities[edit]

I was, for example invited to join along with caribou hunts, joined in with ice-fishing, rode an All-Terrain Vehicle to camp out at a fishing weir, collected ice, and took rides in the back of a qamutik (sled) to spend time at cabins, or check on breathing-holes and dens of seals. Within the communities, I learnt about the meaning of opening prayers at special meetings, and igloo building, as well as the “marginal”, every-day, material logistics that are part of land-based monitoring research projects in the Arctic, like car repairs, cargo transport, seasonal travel, and getting stuck for days during my regional travels multiple times due to blizzards and cancelled flights.

All those day-to-day practices hold possibilities to become spaces of cross-cultural exchange and knowledge co-production that move beyond data.

This cut, "Wayfaring the BearWatch Project", is all about recognizing such possibilities and responding to them through a practice of wayfaring.

Make a choice:

"Stay with the Trouble" to explore how these ideas holds up against Indigenous paradigms, and how to navigate this respectfully.

Or,

"Detour" to Cut 2 explore more on Aesthetic Action. You will not return here.

Detour to Cut 2: "Aesthetic Action"

Stay with the trouble: Ethics of Response-Ability

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-Intra-dependency calls into question "the very nature of two-ness, and ultimately one-ness as well. “Between” will never be the same. One is too few,
+When the world is understood as not consisting of fixed, clearly bounded, individual “things”, but rather as emerging phenomena in constant states of becoming- the world can no longer be understood to consists of “inter” dependent parts to a whole.
-two is too many.” (Barad, 2010, p. 251)
-When the world is understood as consisting of entities (whether material, or immaterial, plant or mineral) that are not pre-determinately fixed as clearly bounded, individual “things”, but that rather emerge as phenomena in a constant state of becoming and co-shaping each other while doing so, those entities can no longer be considered as “inter” dependent parts to a whole, but rather as “intra” dependent relationships that are themselves generative of “wholeness”.
+It rather starts performing through “intra” dependent relationships that are with-in themselves generative of “wholeness”.
-Such wholeness no longer separates subjects (meaning-makers) from objects (observable phenomena), but considers them as co-constitutive. Karen Barad  asserts that: ‘Matter and meaning are not separate elements. They are inextricably fused together, and no event, no matter how energetic, can tear them asunder’…
+Such wholeness no longer separates subjects (meaning-makers) from objects (observable phenomena), but considers these as co-constitutive.
-=Wayfaring_and_the_knowledge-land-scape=
+We cannot know the world independent from ourselves.
-In following with Karen Barad I recognize readers and authors (and many other more-than-human agents) as intra-dependently entangled within constellations of matter and meaning. In fact, we have already started to move forward alongside each other in our emergent processes of becoming knowledgeable. The idea here is that, instead of me presenting a descriptive narrative on ethical engagement and ethical space, we get to perform its mechanisms together – side by side.
+=Wayfaring and the Knowledge-Land-Scape=
-The company for us to be- and think with varies, but emerge for a large part from the encounters I had as I threaded my way through my fieldwork in the hamlets of Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven) and Salliq (Coral Harbour) of Kitikmeot- and Kivalliq regions in the territory of Nunavut respectively. I was, for example invited to join along with caribou hunts, joined in with ice-fishing, rode an All-Terrain Vehicle to camp out at a fishing weir, collected ice, and took rides in the back of a qamutik (sled) to spend time at cabins, or check on breathing-holes and dens of seals. Also, within the communities, I learnt about the meaning of opening prayers at special meetings, and igloo building, as well as the “marginal”, every-day, material logistics that are part of land-based monitoring research projects in the Arctic, like car repairs, cargo transport, seasonal travel, and getting stuck for days during my regional travels multiple times due to blizzards and cancelled flights. Collectively, I refer to all those practical experiences that emerged as part of my methodological wayfaring, as ‘aesthetic encounters’- a term that I adapt from Robinson and Martin’s ‘aesthetic action’ . I look at the opportunities that emerge within such encounters for enunciating and conciliating different kinds of knowledges. What kind of spaces open up? What insights emerge within such spaces? And what possibilities for cross-cultural exchange, beyond data, become possible? To engage such questions, I argue for an ethos of ‘co-forming patterns of responsiveness, attention, desire and communication’ , by way of wayfaring.
+In fact, we (you, I and many others) have already started to move forward alongside each other in our emergent processes of becoming knowledgeable together.
+[[File:Traces.jpg|thumb|Qamutik traces in the snow (photograph by de Wildt, 2023)]]
-<span class="next_choice">You have reached a split in the track. Moving forward threads you back alongside the unfolding cut of the Bearwatch project. Allowing yourself to be redirected, detours you to a different cut in space and time: Cut 2 Aesthetic Action. That cut is all about the sites in which we encounter each other as we move along the knowledge-land-scape. Which direction do you take?</span>
+The company for us to be- and think with in this knowledge-land-scape varies, but emerges for a large part from the encounters I had as I threaded my way through my fieldwork in the hamlets of Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven) and Salliq (Coral Harbour) of Kitikmeot- and Kivalliq regions in the territory of Nunavut respectively.
-<span class="detour to cut 2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic_Action" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Aesthetic Action#Aesthetic (in)action in BearWatch|Detour to Cut 2 "Aesthetic Action"]]</span>
+=Possibilities=
+I was, for example invited to join along with caribou hunts, joined in with ice-fishing, rode an All-Terrain Vehicle to camp out at a fishing weir, collected ice, and took rides in the back of a qamutik (sled) to spend time at cabins, or check on breathing-holes and dens of seals. Within the communities, I learnt about the meaning of opening prayers at special meetings, and igloo building, as well as the “marginal”, every-day, material logistics that are part of land-based monitoring research projects in the Arctic, like car repairs, cargo transport, seasonal travel, and getting stuck for days during my regional travels multiple times due to blizzards and cancelled flights.
-<span class="return to cut 3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring_the_BW_project_Point_of_Beginning" data-section-id="6" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BW project Point of Beginning#TEK Workshops|Return to the BearWatch project]]</span>
+All those day-to-day practices hold possibilities to become spaces of cross-cultural exchange and knowledge co-production that move beyond data.
+This cut, "Wayfaring the BearWatch Project", is all about recognizing such possibilities and responding to them through a practice of wayfaring.
-<span class="next_choice">You are stopped in your tracks, you sense some trouble here. Such "intra-dependency" as put forward here, citing Karen Barad and Tim ingold, gestures towards an ontological turn within western philosophy, that seemingly holds a lot of similarities with Indigenous, monist ontologies. How does this hold up against the principle of respecting difference that you encountered earlier?</span>
+<div class="next_choice">Make a choice:
-<span class="pop-up stay-with-the-trouble link" data-page-title="Ethics_of_response-ability" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Stay_with_the_trouble">[[Ethics of response-ability|Stay with the trouble: Ethics of Response-ability]]</span>
+'''"Stay with the Trouble"''' to explore how these ideas holds up against Indigenous paradigms, and how to navigate this respectfully.
+Or,
+'''"Detour"''' to Cut 2 explore more on Aesthetic Action. You will not return here.</div>
+<span class="detour to-cut-2 link" data-page-title="Aesthetic_Action" data-section-id="5" data-encounter-type="detour">[[Aesthetic Action#Aesthetic (in)action in BearWatch|Detour to Cut 2: "Aesthetic Action"]]</span>
+<span class="pop-up stay-with-the-trouble link" data-page-title="Ethics_of_Response-Ability" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Stay_with_the_trouble">[[Ethics of Response-Ability|Stay with the trouble: Ethics of Response-Ability]]</span>