This interactive workshop starts from the premise that situated amidst seemingly omnipresent crises and ongoing toxic shocks, the question of “critical” academic research has itself become de/limited by the search for common cures and standardizable solutions. At the same time that research methods have expanded and proliferated in order to dilate what counts as “legitimate” study, opting for more “creative” methods and/or “non-traditional” approaches, scholarly inquiry nevertheless remains committed to methodocentrism (Snaza & Weaver, 2017) or the belief that with the right method, an antidote to today’s toxic media ecologies is both possible and of the utmost imperative. In this workshop, we will work together to interrogate such solutionist demands by developing a series of collaborative strati-tactics that do not aim to provide pre-determined models and methods, but instead work as provisional platforms from which future research trajectories may (or may not) emerge.

Workshop led by Jessie Beier.