Abstract
In the midst of a certain zeal for ‘French Theory’ in human geography and the social sciences of late, there has been something of a rush to operationalize Guattari (among others) in a pseudo-methodological manner; something we’re unashamedly guilty of ourselves. It’s easy to see why: journeying between cartography, metamodelisation, tracing, transversality, enunciation and diagramming, Guattari offers a seductive array of concepts and philosophical tools for human geographers. There seems, however, to be a disjuncture between the conceptual import of such terms and their empirical rendering. In this explicitly experimental article, we want to open up a series of lines of flight as to how Guattari can inform empiricism without reversion to straightforward application or metaphorical appropriation. In doing so, we offer a number of speculations on how Guattari’s work can be evoked in the crafting of a different tenor of well-established geographical methods. Put differently, we want to accentuate the impracticality of Guattari’s philosophy as its most generative vector for human geographic thought and technique.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 131-148 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Dialogues in Human Geography |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 10 Jul 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2015 |
Keywords
- cartography
- existential territories
- Guattari
- impractical
- metamodelisation
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Dr Joe Gerlach
- School of Geographical Sciences - Associate Professor in Cultural Geography
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