Meaning and the Measuring Apparatus. (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaufmann, Jodi
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 23:Number 5(2017)
• Page Start: 395
• Page End: 398
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: autoethnography -- methodologies -- arts-based inquiry -- methods of inquiry -- reforming the social sciences -- decolonizing the academy -- pedagogy; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800416636754
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Meaning haunts me. At once its foundations are nebulous and its consequences profound, as bodies are broken and raised on its surface. An artifice that cuts deeply, meaning and its accomplice, the measuring apparatus, consume me. To assuage this haunting consumption, in a series of eight vignettes, inspired by posthumanism, I use a form of artistic inquiry to contemplate meaning and the measuring apparatus in qualitative research.