Encounters Along the Way
Along the way, whether you are on a cut, a side-trail, or halfway an ice pressure ridge, you may encounter a number of different agential phenomena. These phenomena pop-up on the left side of your screen as either; i) Vista’s, ii) Landmarks, iii)Great White Beasts, or iv) Shipwrecks. Each of those figures have emerged from my research, and offer different possibilities of meaning making in your journey through this knowledge-land-scape.
Although you can “keep going”, for this instruction it is important to click on the pop-up image to your left that says “Vista”. You will return to this cut later.
Research Creation
You are starting to get a grasp on things. You now understand that (knowledge) encounters between Qablunaat (non-Inuit people) and Inuit emerge as part of multiple apparatuses-in-encounter across time and space - and that they take shape in this knowledge-land-scape through the figure of the “Shipwrecks”. Such apparatuses have shaped both the BearWatch project, the research on which this knowledge-land-scape extends and the possible ways in which you can move along this scape to engage with this research. The possibilities within such encounters are performed as “invitations”, while its conditions and boundaries materialize as “ice pressure ridges”. It’s the space in-between within which we can act as intra-dependent agential beings and understand how knowledge conciliation comes to matter as an ethical space, practice and process of engagement through the choices we make as we move through the world alongside each other. The principles that can guide us in such corresponding journeys are shared in this knowledge-land-scape as “vistas”, while the insights required to answer the research question in meaningful ways are only revealed by engaging with certain “landmarks” from the particular vantage point of moving within the knowledge-land-scape.
Along the way you may encounter different research creations that were part of my research process. You can recognize these moments by …
You may also be presented with options to “detour”,on the bottom of your screen. Detours may send you to a different cut, or may allow you to take shortcuts within your current cut. When you take a detour, you may not always find a path to return to your current cut, so think carefully before you detour. If you hover over the “detour” button, before clicking it, it will reveal where the detour will take you. In this case, if you hover over the button, it will show you that the detour will bring you to the “Terms of Engagement” page.
Do not click the detour button for now. Keep going.
Another Point of Beginning
Eventually all cuts run into other points of beginning. These are not conclusive endings to this work, but rather perform a cusp of emergence- a story so-far. Some of these points mark the end of funding cycles or research projects, or mark the limitations and scope of this particular Phd dissertation. Others are trails, and tracks that have faded out, as they remained un-revisited. These other points of beginning mark one moment along an ongoing animate line of correspondence.and they usually allow for making another cut.
You have finished the instruction tutorial. Return to the homepage and embark on your journey.