A voice without organs: interviewing in posthumanist research
In keeping with the editor’s call for this special issue, this paper discusses how a posthumanist stance has enabled me to materialize a different conception of the interview and interview data in postqualitative inquiry. More specifically, I am thinking with Deleuze and Guattari’s
concept, the Body without Organs, one they use to enact thinking without a subject and to liberate thought from overcoded images in order to confront a reliance on objects or material representations to understand and explain. Using this concept, I theorize a Voice without Organs
(VwO) as a voice that does not emanate from a singular subject but is produced in an enactment among research-data-participants-theory-analysis. The article concludes with an analysis of data from a recent interview project that illustrates how VwO is both produced by and producing different
knowledge and suggests implications for thinking interviewing and interview data differently.
Keywords: Deleuze and Guattari; interviewing; posthumanism; voice
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Education Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
Publication date: 01 July 2013
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