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Phone-made poiesies: towards an ethnography of call and response
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Abstract:
Working with Yolngu attunes one to the power of resonance. Without it, the world seems staccato and slippery thin; its endings too brutally final; the grabby inertia of the day-to-day just plain exhausting. By making ideas, people, places, and images resonate with each other, we call into being – and locate ourselves within – worlds of tremulous relationality. This is the stuff of kinship proper: worlds revealed as generative, patterned by cross-cuttings of similitude and difference, structured through an ethics of affinity. A dynamic of call and response worlds the world in quite particular ways. Beyond the back-and-forth logistics of information transfer, a play of call and response can create and affirm relationships premised on simultaneous connection and separation. It foregrounds a kind of shared, relational agency. To set up the dynamic of call and response is to produce moments of enlivening: as one draws the other into response and expression, something new comes into the world – something that would not exist without this incitement of the other.
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URL: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/54776/1/54776_Deger_2018_chapter.pdf
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