How does phenomenology generate knowledge?
Too often, phenomenology is made into a step-by-step process that claims a knowledge outcome. Knowledge, however, in a phenomenological study, is an altogether different beast.
Writing
What can you do with a Stupid Detector?
A lot of what is ‘peer-reviewed’ and published as phenomenology is, my stupid detector reports, stupid. But why?
How writing rescues us from being dull and blind
To write a description is to wield a special magic. Description moves us from being blind, dull and predictable into being visionary, original and of truth.
Phenomenology & Description II
Writing phenomenology is how phenomenological discovery is made when the writing is active and poem-ing.
Touched and touching: beyond neural evidence models
Some things do not ask to be explained, but understood. Cognitive models of touch, philosophy of mind and consciousness studies fail us.
Writing description as ‘doing’
Writing a phenomenological description is a process that must contain active life in the words, phrases, structure and doing.
Phenomenology & Description I
Despite phenomenology being a practice of written description, few textbooks and critical works discuss how to write a phenomenological description.
Sketches from phenomenology: Writer’s Block
Redefining the page as space to suggest a new perspective on writer’s block.
