...Modulations ...

... This module lays the groundwork for multidimensional concept work by providing step-by-step guidance for writing a research imaginary. A research imaginary is a freely written narrative about a project’s contexts, aims, and potentials. The goal of this module is to bring forth a manageable group...

... After initial key project concepts and processes are identified in the research imaginary (Module 1), this module will situate these concepts within three existing literatures: bodies of categorically distinguished work, conventionally bounded by discipline, history, topic, and theme...

... Using the project’s key empirical and theoretical concepts (Module 1) as well as literature concepts (Module 2), a concept map will be made to graphically represent all project concepts. The purpose of the concept map is to diagram conceptual relationships that sketch out the project’s...

... This module represents the scoping zone, which opens the project’s disciplinary and social/contextual extent of inquiry. “Scoping” a project specifies its conceptual breadth as well as its limits. Exercises help clarify both in order to compose an overarching (scoping) research question...

... This module represents the connecting zone of inquiry, which conjoins the project’s distinctive parts and materializes its major functions. By drawing on the concept map, disparate project concepts are clustered together into three to five broad processes. Process clusters are used to develop...

... This module represents the interacting zone, which pertains to the possibilities of interpersonal inquiry and interaction. Using the data sets and data-gathering questions as guides, the focus is on specific questions and methods needed for fieldwork involvement as well as multimodal materials...

... With the project’s initial multidimensionality established (Module 4), this module focuses on writing a research description (RD). The RD is a 100- to 150-word narrative rendition of what the project is about: what will be done where, when, with whom, why, and with respect to what kinds...

... After making connections among project and literature concepts (Module 3), this module engages a project’s multidimensionality by combining three to four key concepts. That is, the purpose of this module is to develop “concept combos,” which are creative innovations that demonstrate a project’s...

... This module focuses on articulating a multidimensional object (MO), a two- to three-word phrase that evokes the dynamic relationships among the project’s key concepts that keeps them together in a cogent, congruent assemblage. The MO has a dual nature: it represents the project’s ethnographic...

... After completing the project grid in Module 9, exercises in this module are dedicated to showing how the grid can be used. In all previous modules, the sequential exercises achieved a particular goal in the project design process, such as developing a research description, figuring out...

.... It means producing it. The production of insecurity registers in fear. The production of fear is a prime opportunity to modulate the unfolding of events through affective priming. The result is an “affective attunement” triggering a “collective individuation” (Simondon). The means by which preemption...

... The term “transduction” describes a process through which sound changes as it traverses media, as it undergoes transformations in its energetic substrate (from electrical to mechanical, for example), and as it goes through transubstantiations that modulate both its matter and meaning. This entry...

... aspects of the world by making and modulating sounds. Ergo-audition covers a range of experiences, from simple feedback mechanisms (judging the fullness of a receptacle based on changes in harmonic timbre in a liquid being poured) to the psychological and perceptual complexities involved in hearing...

... it. This is done primarily through “priming”—the modulation of action and perception through nonconscious micro-events occurring in the interval of “readiness potential” where an experience is in-the-making. How this plays out in “battlespace” in the preemptive practice of “shock and awe” and associated tactics...

... Slow life is a reckoning with the capitalist captures of uncertainty and modulations of time: historical/civilizational time, the stealing of time through the expansion of labor time, the refusal or withholding of temporal simultaneity but most significantly, the cordoning off space through time...

... to modulate educational encounters that bloom into events in the most generative understanding of that term. Here, more-than-human emergence gathers as a blurry collective to reckon with the multidirectional violence that saturates the situations we move through, and holds space for improvisational maneuvers...

... with his sexual “identity” and that has seen him as challenging both the racial and sexual prejudices of his missionary peers. It uses the Yate scandal to explore a series of overlapping debates about the ways in which missionaries should modulate intimacy, the consequences of certain types of sexual acts...