Inquiry as Resonance: Wiry Workings of Failure and Patience

Abstract

In this article, I offer inquiry as resonance, an axiological inquiry practice that seeks to amplify transformative resonances in the world. This inquiry practice gets to work with Rosa’s modes of resonance that include the qualities (i.e., af<-fection, e->motion, transformation, and uncontrollability) as well as horizontal (i.e., human actors), vertical (i.e., art, history, and the like), and diagonal (i.e., structural and ideological entities) axes that create resonances between a human actor and the interconnected world in which they live. Inquiry as resonance advocates for an accountable “I” in an interconnected and shifting world. I came to inquiry as resonance through a journey of failure (or lack of resonance) with theory and patiently writing and working with, though, and against that failure. That journey created space for me to consider resonance and what an inquiry of resonance might look like.

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