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         Not only municipal waste defies containment. Residential curbs mark porous boundaries of property where belonging is in flux. Operating on urban denizens’ tacit knowledge of the city, matters deemed no longer fit for manufactured purpose are offered up as open-ended invitations for recirculation by passersby. Half my wardrobe I gleaned from cardboard boxes left on the sidewalk or by back-alley dumpsters, pinned to trees or tossed over fences. A fleece vest, vintage dress, quarter zip, blue jeans, sweatpants, and sneakers to name but a few. Items found whilst walking the city now collaborators in my everyday research and writing practices include a coffee  mug, backpack, stapler, desk, and Epson WorkForce Pro 4740 printer found with a note reading: I STILL WORK.
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           <br><b>Site 4</b>
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         Urban shorelines prove sites of leaky disposal where use and value are rendered differently intelligible by human and more-than-human scavengers. Like the crows, I poach matter and meaning from what I find around, performing bricolage with the physical-conceptual field of my encounter. Sometimes I don't take anything more than what I need in the moment: a chair to sit in while on a call; an electrical socket to plug my phone in while I talk. 
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-        How do unruly material and semiotic flows interfere with regulated forms of exchange from within the dominate economic system? With this page, I describe my tactics of practice and how they interfere with hegemonic economies of knowledge production in ways that matter. My reference to hegemonic economies of knowledge production is specific to the formal requirements of institutional publishing which render research outputs legible as objects of knowledge, and, the boundary making practices by which field and researcher are made differentially articulate. In <a href="./rendering.html" target="_blank">negative-spaces/rendering.html, </a>I further elaborate how both my interference practice and the effects of my interference practice at once articulate and refigure such boundaries.
+        <span  style="background-color: #82ffd562">How do unruly material and semiotic flows interfere with regulated forms of exchange from within the dominate economic system?</span> With this page, I describe my tactics of practice and how they interfere with hegemonic economies of knowledge production in ways that matter. My reference to hegemonic economies of knowledge production is specific to the formal requirements of institutional publishing which render research outputs legible as objects of knowledge, and, the boundary making practices by which field and researcher are made differentially articulate. In <a href="./rendering.html" target="_blank">negative-spaces/rendering.html, </a>I further elaborate how both my interference practice and the effects of my interference practice at once articulate and refigure such boundaries.
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   <p><span style="font-weight:701">TAKE AND MAKE DO</span><br>
     Write Murris and Bozalek (2019): "A diffractive methodology contests the notion that a researcher can be taught tools or techniques about a world which is independent of and at an ontological distance from the researcher." As discussed in <a href="./interference.html" target="_blank">negative-spaces/interference.html, </a>field and researcher (including instruments of investigation) are provisional configurations whose intelligibility within and as part of specific phenomena is the effect of iterative 'intra-actions' (Barad 2007). In other words, 'agential separability' (Barad 2007) is the condition of exteriority-within-phenomena whereby field and researcher (including instruments of investigation) become differentially articulated. 'The field' itself might be better understood as a phenomenon wherein which field<i>site</i> becomes intelligible as a bounded area/place/extent/scope in dynamic relation to the framing of a researcher and their instruments of investigation. For example, by site-ing the graffiti of an economy with my phone's camera, I cropped all geographic context out of sight. By embedding the image here as reference I privilege the visual, the transmission of meaning made possible by numerous technologies and operations entirely elided from the scene. A site, as part of the world rendered provisionally determinate, is itself a phenomenon within which empirical formations like 'data' become differentially intelligible. Sites change. Data moves. Alleyways meander. A pair of sneakers moves from the fence post to the lid of a neighboring recycle bin. A metal chair with cerulean upholstery migrates down the alleyway before winding up in someone else's garage. I take an espresso maker found on the road verge back to my house where it sits under the stairs, in my room, in my car, until months later, a friend uses it and I feel like I can let it go again. Hours after I set it out it's gone.
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       <span style="font-size:11pt"><b>Site 6</b> No repeat is the same, yet every similarity is accompanied by difference.</span>
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         Because the boundary between agencies of observation (instruments and researcher, whose 'human-ness' is itself the effect of boundary making practices) and object of observation is re/figured within the phenomenon of every encounter, "the researcher-as-bricoleur" is "equipped with a set of tools rather than a fit-for-purpose methodological strategy" (Roberts 2018a, 54). Deep mapping therefore employs tactics. 
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     In both field research and website creation, I employ spatial bricolage––the poetics of ‘making do’ with what tools, skills, and materials are readily available (Roberts 2018b). I take and make do with what has been disposed of, discarded, and/or freely given. I appropriate tools, skills, and resources garnered through formal means for alternate purposes. Gleaning is the related practice of gathering information or materials from one's surroundings. Les Roberts refers to "gleaning as a spatial praxis" (Roberts 2018a, 57). Elsewhere, he writes,
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       Whatever is found in whatever landscape the gleaner-bricoleur happens to find herself at whatever time she happens to be there is potentially constituent matter of an assemblage-in-progress, the production of which may take a number of different forms (or none at all - the practice of gleaning-bricolage need not cede an 'output' for it to still count as gleaning and/or bricolage). (Roberts 2018b, 6)
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-      Responding to Foucault, Deleuze says:<br>
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       Precisely. A theory is exactly like a box of tools. It has nothing to do with the signifier. It must be useful. It must function. And not for itself. If no one uses it, beginning with the theoretician himself (who then ceases to be a theoretician), then the theory is worthless or the moment is inappropriate…" (in Foucault 1977, 208)
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-  Rosenman and Narayan (2022) argue that reimagining the subdiscipline for a 'public economic geography' would entail "serious consideration of authorship, audience, citations, methods, modes and targets of publication…. beyond academic categories and methods employed so far" (401). They are clear that "Praxis cannot be located in simply the study of economy, or in proposing alternatives, but in actually <i>enacting</i> writing and knowledge production differently, bearing in mind its material and political consequences" (Narayan and Rosenman 2022, 400, emphasis in original). I am not arguing that what I do is necessarily public economic geography but rather that if economics is about how we live in the everyday (Narayan and Rosenman 2022), then deep mapping is a performative practice for enacting 'diverse economies' (Gibson-Graham 2008). Or maybe that is precisely the point - that an economy is not limited, as I once believed, to the consumption of goods and services, but about everyday arts of inhabitation. What if an economy <i>were</i> a soul/spirit/love? What might exchange look like then? My deep mapping practice at once interferes with hegemonic economies by poaching skills/materials/resources from the dominate capitalist system, and enacts/forges an alter-economy of distributed knowledge production through siting a posthuman public. How might the tactics of practical knowledge be employed to interfere with onto-epistemological hegemonies from within the neoliberal university at the graduate level? Continue to <a href="./rendering.html" target="_blank">negative-spaces/rendering.html</a> to learn how making space for deep mapping renders theory as praxis.
+  Rosenman and Narayan (2022) argue that reimagining the subdiscipline for a 'public economic geography' would entail "serious consideration of authorship, audience, citations, methods, modes and targets of publication…. beyond academic categories and methods employed so far" (401). They are clear that "Praxis cannot be located in simply the study of economy, or in proposing alternatives, but in actually <i>enacting</i> writing and knowledge production differently, bearing in mind its material and political consequences" (Narayan and Rosenman 2022, 400, emphasis in original). I am not arguing that what I do is necessarily public economic geography but rather that if economics is about how we live in the everyday (Narayan and Rosenman 2022), then deep mapping is a performative practice for enacting 'diverse economies' (Gibson-Graham 2008). Or maybe that is precisely the point - that an economy is not limited, as I once believed, to the consumption of goods and services, but about everyday arts of inhabitation. What if an economy <i>were</i> a soul/spirit/love? What might exchange look like then? My deep mapping practice at once interferes with hegemonic economies by poaching skills/materials/resources from the dominate capitalist system, and enacts/forges an alter-economy of distributed knowledge production through siting a posthuman public. <span  style="background-color: #82ffd562">How might the tactics of practical knowledge be employed to interfere with onto-epistemological hegemonies from within the neoliberal university at the graduate level?</span> Continue to <a href="./rendering.html" target="_blank">negative-spaces/rendering.html</a> to learn how making space for deep mapping renders theory as praxis.
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