Introduction to Posthuman Inquiry
Catherine Adams, Terrie Lynn Thompson · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2016
We reflect on the many digital and nondigital things that support and shepherd today’s professional practices. Things are not inert objects, but vital entities implicated in the co-constitution and becoming of our everyday worlds. We forward posthumanism as a theoretical framework to address our twenty-first century situation. Actor-Network Theory, phenomenology, and related methodological approaches used throughout the book are presented. Differences between objects and things are considered. We propose interviewing objects as a way to give things a voice in research, and thus include them as participants in inquiry. Eight heuristics are introduced for conducting posthuman research.