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The chapter offers some stories of learning experiences that take place in and with the public park close to the preschool by way of an assemblage of image and text. The images are offered as frozen, stop-frame selections from re-turnings, re-runnings, and re-versings of video material. The accompanying text attempts to track or mark particular agential cuts in which video practices have agency. According to Barad, an agential cut is the only possible description of reality: it is a mapping of an intra-action within a phenomenon that makes no claim to universal or essential truth. The intra-acting visual and verbal notes are propositions for working in experimental ways with and among human and non-human forces in education.
This time , it is in order to join with the forces of the future, cosmic forces. One launches forth, hazards an improvisation. But to improvise is to join with the World, or meld with it. One ventures from home on the thread of a tune.
Deleuze and Guattari (1987, p. 363)
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The grey text (iii) indicating the unboundedness of a trans-individuality.
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Giorza, T.M. (2021). Writing with the Park. In: Learning with Damaged Colonial Places. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1421-7_6
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