I knock at the stone's front door: performative pedagogies beyond the human story

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1 Archer, Rivers, Rights & Reconciliation, 1; Waters, India makes Ganges, para. 1; Reid et al., Sliding rocks, 819; Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 21; Nicolson, Wall, 52.

2 Barad, New Materialism, 54–55.

3 Perry, Theatre as place of learning.

4 Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulhucene, 260.

5 See Braidotti, The Posthuman, 38–54; Taylor and Hughes, Posthuman Research Practices in Education; Panelli, More-than-human social geographies, 81–84; Castree, Nash, Badminton, Braun, Murdoch and Whatmore, Mapping posthumanism: an exchange, 1341–1363. Sundberg, Decolonising posthumanist geographies, 33.

6 Braun, Querying posthumanisms, 82.

7 Barad, Posthumanist Performativity, 801–831.

8 Braidotti, The Posthuman, 49.

9 Mcphie, Mr Messy and the Ghost, 1; Murris, The Posthuman Child, 152.

10 Lispector, Agua Viva, 15.

11 See Mcphie and Clarke, Walk in the Park, 244.

12 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 550.

13 Perry and Medina, Embodiment and Performance in Pedagogy, 70.

14 ‘Agential intraactions are specific causal material enactments that may or may not involve humans’ (Barad, Posthumanist Performativity, 817).

15 Hayles, How we became Posthuman, 288; Braidotti, The Posthuman, 1–12.

16 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, 145–146.

17 Kohn, How Forests Think, 100; Murris, The Posthuman Child, 45–76. Also, see Latour, Reassembling the social, 80.

18 Kohn, How Forests Think, 100; Murris, The Posthuman Child, 63.

19 ‘The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.’ (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 3).

20 Descola, All too human (still), 271.

21 Edensor, Entangled agencies, 238, 240.

22 Ibid., 244.

23 Oppermann, Material Ecocriticism, 58.

24 Ingold, Making, 100.

25 Ibid., 100-101.

26 Barad, New Materialism, 54–55; Malafouris, At the Potter’s Wheel, 35.

27 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 61.

28 See Maturana and Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition, for their ‘systems’ version of life as self-replicating.

29 Alexander, The Timeless Way, 8.

30 Alexander, The Nature of Order, 30.

31 Ibid., 31.

32 Deleuze and Guattari, cited in Taguchi, The Concept as Method, 213.

33 Bennett, Thinking like a Brick, 58.

34 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 503.

35 Mcphie and Clarke, Walk in the Park, 241.

36 See Cohen, Ecology of the Inhuman.

37 Harper, Agent, n.p.

38 Szymborska, Conversation with a Stone, 54; Mcphie and Clarke, Walk in the Park, 243.

39 Ingold, Being Alive, 29.

40 Bennett, Thinking like a Brick, 58.

41 Ansell-Pearson, cited in Tiessen, (In)Human Desiring, 137.

42 Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulhucene, 260.

43 Mcphie, Death of Mr. Happy, 143.

44 Hale, Found Spaces, 174; Heron and Reason, Practice of Co-operative Inquiry, 179.

45 Mcphie, Embodied Walls and Extended Skins, 244–245.

46 See Lather and St. Pierre, Post-qualitative research, 629–633.

47 Jackson and Mazzei, Thinking with theory, i.

48 Richardson, Walking Inside Out, 3–4.

49 Andreotti and Costa, Theory of the Dérive, 69.

50 See Mcphie, Embodied walls and Extended Skins.

51 Richardson, Walking Inside Out, 182.

52 Ibid., 183.

53 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 19.

54 For example, see Duff, The Ethological City, 218; Latour, Never Been Modern, 12.

55 MacLure, Researching without representation, 660–661.

56 Most of this description is taken directly from my original study (see Mcphie, Death of Mr. Happy, 30–66).

57 Office Service Charge Brochure, Liverpool ONE, 2.

58 Oppenheim, Who Shapes Cities, paras. 4–6.

59 Goodbun, Ecological Aesthetics, 41.

60 Augé, Non-Places, 78; Rose, my evil modernist lair, para. 4.

61 See Miéville’s 'pictureskew' article in The Guardian.

62 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 36–37.

63 Barad, Meeting the universe halfway, 170.

64 Schroeder, Reterritorializing Subjectivity, 252.

65 Cited in Goodbun, Ecological Aesthetics, 44.

66 Moore, The Capitalocene, para. 1.

67 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 2.

68 Cohen, Ecology of the Inhuman, 11–12.

69 Dema, Inorganic, Yet Alive, para. 1.

70 Bateson, Ecology of Mind, 492.

71 Adelson, Being Alive Well, 3.

72 Mcphie, Mr Messy and the Ghost, 1; Adelson, Being Alive Well, 9, my italics.

73 Mcphie, Embodied walls and Extended Skins, 240–244.

74 Murris, The Posthuman Child, 152.

75 Bryant, For An Apocalyptic Pedagogy, 50.

76 Lispector, Agua Viva, 67.

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Jamie Mcphie

Jamie Mcphie is Lecturer of Cultural Landscapes and Aesthetics in the Outdoors at the University of Cumbria, UK. Email: [email protected].