In the mood of data and measurements
Experiments as Affirmative Critique, or How to Curate Academic Value With Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorthe Staunæs (0000-0002-6554-6632, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Katja Brøgger (0000-0002-5582-4889, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 429-445 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700120967301 |
| OpenAlex | W3097916451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
The technologies used to govern performance at universities consist of monitoring and comparative instruments. They are designed to affect and direct behaviour. In these academic environments of exposure, comparison and self-monitoring are deeply entangled with a vulnerable affective economy. This article explores how these data may affect our moods and how academic value could be curated by other means and with care. Drawing on feminist new materialist thinking and speculative feminist storytelling, the article takes this picture of the actual as a point of departure for discussing ways of experimenting with affirmative critique of the current use of data. Through a smaller experiment with thirty PhD students, the article discusses how to speculatively curate academic value by other means that provide more liveable world(ing)s than data visuals measuring performance and that engage other sensorial and affective registers
Epistemology · Linguistics · Materialism · Media studies · Mood · Narrative · Queer · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Management and Organizational Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Ordinary affect and its powers
Embodied with data
The “new normal” of academia in pandemic times
Affect, stimmung and governing young drug users
The teaching apparatus
Beyond conventional critique in education
Teacher Education Becoming Elsewhere
Theorizing ‘affective infrastructure’ in education policy
Planetary concerns as interruptions to aspiration-raising policy discourses
Domopolitics and the university
Deceit, desire, and the novel
Fabricating Quality in Education
Standards and (self)implosion
Feminist Posthumanities
Queer Times, Black Futures
Posthumanist Performativity
Meet the phallic lecturer
Green with envy
The performative power of (non)human agency assemblages of soft governance
Post-qualitative research
Governing by numbers
Digital education governance
Affective Methodologies
Governance network theory
Understanding Governance
Parables for the Virtual
Data anxieties
On Touching-the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
Affective Economies
The Becoming-Statistic
Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification, and Measure
The Wonder of Data
This is Your Father's Paradigm
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |