Arts-Based Research Otherwise

Abstract

Perhaps the best way to disturb Eisner’s particular clarion call for humanistic arts-based research is to raise the very idea of an idealized ‘icon’ that is implicit throughout Eisner’s position, and secondly raise the difficult question of judgment that undergirds his connoisseurship model. Both of these queries will draw on the posthuman philosophical positions as developed by Lacan, Deleuze|Guattari, and more recently by theorists such as Katherine Hayles, Mark Hansen and Bernard Stiegler that undergird the “proposal” part of our book for ‘a people yet to come.’ It offers somewhat of a preview as to where our particular investment lies.