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Into the Wild Time: Notes from a Traveller

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I want to feel the temporalities I am theorizing and writing about. To feel, explore, be moved through, tugged under by my research subject, to not know where my explorations will take me. How does time appear when I take responsibility for it instead of placing it as and with the Other? Can my temporal research emerge in symbiotic play with other human and non-human entities? In this essay, I will share how a methodological breakdown opened to me a net of (auto-)ethnographic wo/anderings, dialogical interviews and performative time-laboratories. I do not know where I am headed, but every sensuous memory lies in store, waiting for its time.

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    ‘Sisters Academy is a school in a world and society where the sensuous and poetic mode of being is at the centre of all action and interaction. It defines the primary mode of being and is the values on which all societal institutions are building – including the school. Thus Sisters Academy is the school in what we term a Sensuous society – A potential new world arising from the post-economical and ecological crisis. Between 2014–2020 Sisters Academy will manifest in a series of Nordic countries’ (http://sistersacademy.dk/about/)

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    http://www.shsu.edu/~stafs/

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    Horace’s famous quote from one of his odes: Book IV, ode vii, line 16.

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    See also the project website: http://crochetcoralreef.org/

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    https://www.futurelibrary.no/

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    For work on urban lichen-human interrelations, see Jennifer Gabrys, e.g.: http://www.jennifergabrys.net/2012/12/urban-sitework-moss-eye-view/

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    Christina Berg Johansen

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  1. Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Charlotte Wegener

  2. Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ninna Meier

  3. Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Elina Maslo

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Johansen, C.B. (2018). Into the Wild Time: Notes from a Traveller. In: Wegener, C., Meier, N., Maslo, E. (eds) Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60216-5_3

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