Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?
To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.
Writing
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.
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.
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.
