Reflexivity :: researching :: acting

Drawing connecting Lury on second order knowledge (pp. 65-67, 2021) and
my Argument 1: Decidim forms part of a live ecosystem of interconnected collective intelligences

Lury’s writing on second-order knowledge draws together and frames some qualities which I’ve been working with for some time: reflexivity, situated knowledge, recursion. It also helped something click for me. I’ve been very aware of these qualities in two key areas: my positionality and practice; as well as the agency and practice of people in Decidim (“in the field”). However, I had not put those two dynamics in relation to eachother or underlined their common qualities.

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Researching aliveness in real-time

Collage of points that resonate with my practice.
Photos of “A manifesto for live methods: provocations and capacities” by Les Back and Nirmal Puwar (2012)

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Problem Spaces #3 :: does my space map onto Lury’s?

Inspired by Celia Lury’s book *Problem Spaces. How and Why Methodology Matters* (2021)

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Problem Spaces #2

Applying Problem Space approach to my research.
Problem Spaces as per Celia Lury’s book
*Problem Spaces. How and Why Methodology Matters* (2021).

Quote emphasising moving transforming dynamic in Problem Space.
From Celia Lury’s book
*Problem Spaces. How and Why Methodology Matters* (2021, p. 11).

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Centering

bell hooks, *Feminist Theory. From Margin to Center* (1984, p. 33)

I often need to use words like decentralised, distributed and decentering to talk about the shape of collective intelligence and how people can be connected together and work together. And I want to get a hands on feel for what those terms really mean, what work they actually do, and what they could do.

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Chalk collected from the White Cliffs of Dover (2019)

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Confinement Day 9 :: The Insides

Writing sometimes feels like survival. Writing from the inside out. One word after another. One step at a time. Climbing out of the suffocating layers of precarity and non-stop circumstances. Getting a breath. Seeing some light. Filling some of my own space. Getting to grips with own agency again. Making a plan.

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How do you define collective intelligence?

Many versions of collective intelligence are active around us. From the social media Hive Mind, to wikipedia’s Wisdom of the Crowd, to the ant colonies under our feet, to Extinction Rebellion’s swarming tactics, to talk of citizen assemblies solving Brexit or even climate change. To name but a few. My PhD aims to organise different conceptualisations and manifestations of collective intelligence into written and visual meta-analysis. In the wider video work, I am also working with audio-visual analysis and am currently exploring “The Sound of the Hive”. In other words, exploring an understanding of collective intelligence and the hive, through sound and patterns of sounds.

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