Mutual Interrogation Research Articles

Metamodern Spell Casting

Metamodern Spell Casting

John Guillory, Meet Kwasi Wiredu: A 1990s Guide to the Future English Department

Abstract This article pairs the arguments of Cultural Capital with those of Ghanaian decolonial philosopher Kwasi Wiredu. Writing around the same time as Guillory, Wiredu proposes a distinctive mode of decolonization, one focused on concepts rather than syllabi or curricula. In Wiredu's argument, decolonization ought to be a genealogical project, disentangling African thought from colonial impositions. The goal is not simple opposition but the chance to enable located concepts’ and traditions’ mutual interrogation, so that a “decolonized” thinker is one who can make an informed choice as to what analytic lenses or worldviews can or should be defended. Even as literary studies continues to open up possible texts and traditions for study, the bottom has fallen out of a hiring market organized around periodizing categories and national literatures. Turning back to Wiredu and Guillory together might not only help us think more clearly about the politics of literary study but also construct a version of the field based on concepts rather than national-historical fields.

Surfacing Deep Challenges for Social-Educational Justice: Putting Funds, Wealth, and Capital Frameworks into Dialogue

This paper critically explores theoretical, conceptual, and methodological dimensions of three social-justice oriented educational approaches: Bourdieuian Analysis of Capital (BAC), Funds of Knowledge (FK), and Community Cultural Wealth (CCW). We surface convergences and divergences across these three frameworks, seeking to clarify them conceptually, draw out implications for educational praxis, illuminate importantly difficult tensions in-and-across them, and (re)imagine future directions for utilizing these frameworks to address intersecting structural inequalities in the pursuit of strengthened social-educational justice. We argue that putting BAC, FK, and CCW into mutual interrogation can deepen understanding of these inequalities and ways to approach them in education praxis.

Standard Gauge

A frame of frames, a piece of pieces, a length of lengths. Standard gauge on substandard; narrower, yes, but longer. An ECU that’s an ELS. Disjecta membra; Hollywood anthologized. A kind of autobiography of its maker, a kind of history of the institution from whose shards it is composed, the commercial motion picture industry. A mutual interrogation between 35mm and 16mm, the gauge of Hollywood, and the gauge of the amateur and independent.

NFRA-AIC: A RFID Reader Anti-Collision Protocol With Adaptive Interrogation Capacity

In radio frequency identification (RFID) applications, multiple readers are deployed in the work area to improve their coverage. Such adjacent readers may be faced with reader collision due to their mutual interrogation interference. In this case, the performance of the RFID system will be degraded greatly. Therefore, some researchers proposed a number of the RFID reader anti-collision protocols, such as NFRA and its variants. Based on the technical framework of NFRA, this paper proposes an RFID reader anti-collision protocol with adaptive interrogation capacity (NFRA-AIC). The main contribution is that the interrogation time of a reader is determined by the number of tags within its interrogation region. Among NFRA-AIC, by adding sub-rounds and reserving a period of time between the AC signal and the first OC signal, readers that complete interrogating tags can release the communication resources allocated to them. Therefore, other adjacent readers can have a chance to use these released communication resources to interrogate tags. It is worth pointing out that those readers interrogating tags will not be interrupted by an AC signal. To evaluate the protocol performance, the proposed NFRA-AIC is compared with several protocols, i.e., DCS, PDCS, Colorwave, NFRA, NFRA-C, FRCA1, FRCA2, and BACP, in 12 scenarios. The simulation results show that the proposed NFRA-AIC protocol outperforms the other conventional protocols. Especially, the NFRA-AIC harvests the highest efficiency improvement of more than 110% under both the random and mobile deployment patterns compared to the latest protocol BACP.

The Detective as “Zombie of the Interrogative Mood” in Cameron McCabe’s The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

While Cameron McCabe’s detective novel The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor interrogates its own generic mystery elements, Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood asks if its own constant questions are “independent [. . .] zombies of the interrogative mood.” This essay examines how reading as mutual interrogation brings text, detective and reader in McCabe’s novel (back) to life.

The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

Mutual Interrogation: A Methodological Process in Ethnomathematical Research

This paper describes an adaptation of a methodology called mutual interrogation to an ethnomathematical study on Malay weaving. Mutual interrogation is the process of implementing a critical dialogue between two knowledge systems; mathematical knowledge and cultural knowledge. It is proposed as a way of resolving several common issues in investigations of mathematical knowledge in cultural practice. Using this approach, a three-phase dialogue between Malay food cover (tudung saji) weavers and mathematicians was implemented. The interactions between the conventions of the weavers and the conceptions of the mathematicians have uncovered several interesting perspectives that address critiques of ethnomathematical research.

Dell Hymes's visions of enquiry

AbstractThis commentary initially addresses Hymes's uncompromising scrutiny of the institutions of research, ceaselessly setting them alongside the people and processes that academics study. Turning then to the articles in this collection, it links this critical reflexivity to ethnopoetics as a project in the recovery of voices encrypted in the scholarly record, and it notes continuing tensions in the pursuit of equality and rigor. Last, it describes Hymes as a kind of “virtual mentor” for linguistic ethnography outside the United States. In a context where the boundaries between disciplines are often treated lightly, Hymes provides both a map of central currents in contemporary thought and a set of motives and tools for the exploration of local sites—he articulates a view of “social reality as practical activity” that antedates Bourdieu's praxis and Giddens's structuration and pioneers a framework for describing this empirically. In addition, when disciplinary conventions are relativized, and/or practical relevance looms large, there is a route back to first principles in the unflinching mutual interrogation between linguistics and ethnography that runs throughout his work.

Transcendence, Liminality and Excess

Georges Bataille and Émile Durkheim stand within the same broad tradition of social and anthropological theory, and their work also displays structural affinities in the ways in which they pose questions concerning the definitions of science and relations between science and religion and in the manner in which they represent the process of social inquiry. Rather than using social science as a tool to explain religion as a mere object in a social field, they both, in their own ways, bring religion and science into a dangerous but fruitful proximity to each other, and engage them in a sort of mutual interrogation concerning the status of human being, autonomy and knowledge, and the constitution of social life and of meaning.

Machines, Faces, Neurons: Towards an Ethics of Dance

The final installment of a continuing series on choreography considering the mutual interrogation of philosophy and dance, the articles propose a tentative ethics of dance as a “practical philosophy” under the influence of Gilles Deleuze read through specific choreographic practices. Gerald Siegmund describes his private experience of Boris Charmatz's choreographic machine as a metaphor for the entrapment of theatre and as generative of new bodily subjectivities. Introducing anthropological applications of cognitive science to the particular strategies of choreographers working in Brazil, Christine Greiner argues for a political conception of self through dance. Examining the kinetics of the face in RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle, Victoria Anderson Davies meditates on the relationship of facial expression to language, to consciousness, and to movement.

Apparatus, Attention, and the Body: The Theatre Machines of Boris Charmatz

The final installment of a continuing series on choreography considering the mutual interrogation of philosophy and dance, the articles propose a tentative ethics of dance as a “practical philosophy” under the influence of Gilles Deleuze read through specific choreographic practices. Gerald Siegmund describes his private experience of Boris Charmatz's choreographic machine as a metaphor for the entrapment of theatre and as generative of new bodily subjectivities. Introducing anthropological applications of cognitive science to the particular strategies of choreographers working in Brazil, Christine Greiner argues for a political conception of self through dance. Examining the kinetics of the face in RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle, Victoria Anderson Davies meditates on the relationship of facial expression to language, to consciousness, and to movement.

Creative Endurance and the Face Machine: RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle

The final installment of a continuing series on choreography considering the mutual interrogation of philosophy and dance, the articles propose a tentative ethics of dance as a “practical philosophy” under the influence of Gilles Deleuze read through specific choreographic practices. Gerald Siegmund describes his private experience of Boris Charmatz's choreographic machine as a metaphor for the entrapment of theatre and as generative of new bodily subjectivities. Introducing anthropological applications of cognitive science to the particular strategies of choreographers working in Brazil, Christine Greiner argues for a political conception of self through dance. Examining the kinetics of the face in RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle, Victoria Anderson Davies meditates on the relationship of facial expression to language, to consciousness, and to movement.

Researching Dance in the Wild: Brazilian Experiences

The final installment of a continuing series on choreography considering the mutual interrogation of philosophy and dance, the articles propose a tentative ethics of dance as a “practical philosophy” under the influence of Gilles Deleuze read through specific choreographic practices. Gerald Siegmund describes his private experience of Boris Charmatz's choreographic machine as a metaphor for the entrapment of theatre and as generative of new bodily subjectivities. Introducing anthropological applications of cognitive science to the particular strategies of choreographers working in Brazil, Christine Greiner argues for a political conception of self through dance. Examining the kinetics of the face in RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle, Victoria Anderson Davies meditates on the relationship of facial expression to language, to consciousness, and to movement.

Solidarity through collaborative research

While numerous publications signal the merits of collaborative research, few studies provide interpretive analyses of collaborative‐research practices or collaborative relationships. Through this multiple case study design of collaborative‐research teams, the authors attempt to provide such an analysis by focusing on the collaborative‐research experiences of seven qualitative researchers from two contrasting research teams in Australia and North America. They highlight how solidarity emerged from successful interactions between interdependent members, and how these were both professionally and personally rewarding for individuals and the teams. As well, they identify the opportunities for solidarity afforded to researchers from vertical collaborations (i.e. collaborations involving differential status between team members) that featured evolving and transforming mentoring relationships through the history of the research projects. They propose that solidarity can be stratified within large research teams through sub‐units like dyads. Finally, they suggest that collaborating researchers might benefit from reviewing case studies of collaborative relationships, and engaging in mutual interrogation and subsequent individual reflections of their articulated collaborative practices and relationships.

Body and story: the ethics and practice of theoretical conflict

In Body and Story, Richard Terdiman explores the tension between what might seem to be two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world: as physical reality and as representation in language. In demonstrating the complicated relationship between these two modes of being, he also presents a new bold approach to the problem of conflicts between irreconcilable but equally compelling theoretical ideas. Enlightenment rationalism is most often understood as maintaining that words can meaningfully refer to and grasp things in the material world, while Postmodernism famously argues that nothing exists outside of language. Terdiman challenges this clean distinction, finding the early seeds of Postmodern doubt in the Enlightenment, and demonstrating the stubborn resistance of material reality-particularly that of the body-to language even today. Building on readings of works by 18th-century encyclopedist Denis Diderot and contemporary philosopher-icon Jacques Derrida, Terdiman argues that despite their genuine and profound opposition, a constant negotiation or mutual interrogation has always been taking place between these two world-views, even as the balance at times shifts to one side or the other. In analyzing these shifts he proposes a new model for understanding how seemingly unabridgeable theories legitimately coexist in our intellectual conception of the world, and he suggests a new ethics for managing this coexistence.

Jacob Klein's Revisionof Husserl's Crisis

The stated intention of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, especially as it gained increasing clarity in his late work, was to cure the "crisis of the European sciences" which was, or is, also the "crisis of European humanity." This intention must be limited by the historical and critical analyses that attempt to substantiate it to the same degree that these analyses themselves must be renewed and extended to measure up to the intention. Only such a mutual interrogation can decide whether the healing intention of phenomenology should be revised, extended or abandoned. The revision by Jacob Klein of the role of mathematics in the institution (Urstiftung) of modern science as described by Husserl is one major site for such mutual interrogation. Klein's revision is based on his account of "symbol-generating abstraction" that he traces to the reformulation of modern mathematics by Vieta and others.1 My concern in this essay is to follow out the implications of Klein's revision of Husserl for the problem of reification in social reality and the human sciences. Husserl's critique of modernity in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology centers on the "mathematization of nature" whereby nature is interpreted as in reality mathematical and thus amenable to a form of knowledge that is fundamentally mathematical. On this basis, modern knowledge accomplishes a "mathematical substruction of the world" in which the world as a totality is understood as being fundamentally mathematical and all qualitative features are understood to be secondary effects rooted in human subjectivity. In order to understand the constitution of modernity it is necessary to understand the original formation and perdurance of the structures that pre-form subsequent experiences. Here phenomenology encounters the question of history, not simply as empirical history, but as transcendental history. It is in the context of clarifying the sense in which Galileo established the new science that Husserl introduced the term Urstiftungwhich can be translated as "primal establishment," but better as "institution."2 It is mainly a temporal structure in the sense in which it is different to be born after the introduction of compulsory public schooling than before it, but it contains a spatial dimension in the sense that such an introduction begins in some places before others whose "uneven development" then exerts an interactive "push and pull" between them.3 Transcendental history is concerned with the temporal inscription of the life-world such that subsequent empirical history takes a different form after rather than before its institution. The process of institution may be drawn out in empirical history but from the viewpoint of transcendental history it constitutes one historical event. During this event of institution, its full implications and consequences are not yet evident. Similarly, certain elements enter into the institution whose origin is simply passed over and whose validity is simply taken for granted due to its prior sedimentation in tradition. Thus, more is given in the instituting event than is visible at the time. An event in transcendental history will thus often take considerable empirical history for its institution to become a question worth investigation, let alone be completely clarified. Such was the case for the mathematization of nature by Galileo that Husserl began to investigate within transcendental history due to the problem that the contemporary crisis of the sciences posed for the relation of science and philosophy to human life.4 Immediately prior to his analysis of the mathematization of nature in Crisis, Husserl observed that the reshaping of philosophy at the beginning of the modern age was based upon the "immense change of meaning whereby universal tasks were set, primarily for mathematics (as geometry and as formalabstract theory of numbers and magnitudes)."5 Thus, it is not only the interpretation of nature in mathematical terms, nor this combined with the ontologization toward a mathematical world-which arguably was already present in Plato-but that this combination is based upon a different mathematics unavailable to the Greek or Medieval worlds. …

Swimming in and out of Focus: Second Contact, Vietnamese Migrant Others and Australian Selves

Anthropologists and others have always used the Other to define themselves. Using Michael Taussig's idea of ‘second contact’, I argue that this is inappropriate and that the imagined borders between us and them in relationships between Vietnamese and other Australians are less than stable, continually losing their polarity and swimming in and out of focus. In light of the Vietnamese migrant case, I argue that similar ethnographic research projects cannot rely on stable boundaries between the host and the migrant community to organise explanations. Rather than simply registering ‘cultural contacts’, we have to engage the interplay between the strange and the familiar in specific contexts. Furthermore, my reading of Vietnamese migrant identity obliges us to listen to Vietnamese Australian voices as they attempt to respond to the fluctuating interstices of an intercultural borderland. This implies the mutual anthropological interrogation of both self and other.

Practical Issues in Prototyping National Public Transport Journey Planning System Using JourneyWeb Protocol

This research examined the requirements for multiple travelers to request a local, medium-distance, national, or international itinerary plan from any node of a public transport journey planner system using timetable or schedule data from numerous public transport companies and modes. It was resolved that a four-tier, client-server architecture and a distributed data service would best meet these requirements, using the Internet to exchange trip schedule data according to an agreed JourneyWeb protocol based on extended markup language. The JourneyWeb protocol is explained, and the field characteristics and attributes used in mutual data interrogation between itinerary planning services, allowing the web of services to expand, are defined. Successive iterations of a prototype system, first between two counties and then expanded to include a larger geographic area, demonstrate progress to date using real schedule data.

Theories of Africans: Francophone literature and anthropology in Africa

Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis. Y. Mudimbe