| Chapter 3: | A Kind of Response |
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My method, born within this body, is anxious uncertainty. My method is the artist's, where I seriously get it “all wrong” (Gillian Rose, as cited in Baker, 2000, p. 188). Even looking in the wrong direction. My commitment is to the uncertainty of knowledge. Epistemic doubt, wonder, and a lack of proof exemplify uncertainty and ambiguity, which are comforts for scholars in this contemporary era. The knowledge I pursue exists within our bodies, within the transitional space between our bodies and the world, and the part of our world that “lies beyond language” (van Manen, 1990/1997, p. ix).
