How can wondering-with more-than-human data re-member bodies differently?

How can wondering-with more-than-human data re-member bodies differently? In my research with “Manna High” in urban settler-colonial Melbourne, I realise now (ruefully) that through my early ‘data analysis’ I attempted to subjugate the data around the centrality of human learners in an attempt to re-centre the nonhuman. Now understanding this subjugation as re-asserting human/Nature binaries rather than (onto-epistemologically) dissolving them, I have come to wonder anew with the ‘wonder of data’ (MacLure, 2013)—the data that keeps leaping out from the screen, from my headphones, from my bodied re-collections. The data I have chosen and which have chosen me (MacLure, 2013), are the materials above and their absented human curator “Rudi”. Hiding the glass under the bark until the next visit to Bluestone Creek and sitting by them while drawing, the materials hold him there. I wonder how re-membering Rudi differently, as “Rudi-with”, as an always more-than-human assemblage, helps to wonder-with data posthumanly. What does this re-membering of human bodies as more-than-human collectives do to ontic pedagogic inquiry?

References

MacLure, M. (2013). The wonder of data. Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies 13 (4): 228–232.

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