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With a duality characteristic of the double-slit diffraction (superposition) at the core of its pedagogy, Essayers simultaneously ‘ups the ante’ and ‘lowers the stakes’ by handmade means (cartooning, jottings, playing school).
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Iball, H. (2023). Essayers, Zines, and Peeps: The Matter of Diffraction (for Undergraduate Practice-as-Research). In: Bayley, A., Chan, J. (eds) Diffracting New Materialisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18607-3_6
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