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For the past nine years, I have been part of a community of people, a collection of raggle-taggle thinkers and explores who have read together and talked together and journeyed together. When I was invited into this family, it operated under the title The Post-structural Reading Group. These folk immersed me in theory and thought. We spent a year or so working through Foucault\u2019s Order of Things<\/em>. Each month we sat in a group, shook our heads, sucked on our lips, and said things like \u2018Well, no \u2013 I don\u2019t know what he means there either!\u2019. We were consoled that this thinking business was hard. The group changed; people came, others went. We celebrated successes, and we commiserated in disappointments. Sometime we shared lunch too! Reading Foucault led us to new places in our thinking; we read Derrida, Baumann, Moi, Osberg, Biesta, Harraway, Springer, Chantelle Mouffe and many others. As we read, our horizons were extended, and we diverged, shifted focus; one reading led to another, that to another, and another\u2026<\/p>\n

We journeyed together, in the company of others. The group always had a non-hierarchical character; we created spaces within the performative neoliberal business and busyness to pause, reflect, and share our insights and our ignorances, to think freely, to engage critically with each other and with those from other places. All of this put us in encounter with theories that cut through \u2013 and often disrupted \u2013 our thinking in ways that cannot be undone.\u00a0 We explored together new territories that we hadn\u2019t even known existed. Gradually the focus shifted, we were covering new ground; responses to neoliberalism, geopolitics, democracy, indigenous agency, relational understandings of place\/space, post-human approaches and understandings. A couple of years ago, we began to recognise that our title no longer reflected our reality \u2013 we were no longer a post-structural reading group \u2013 perhaps at best we had become a post-post-structural reading group\u2026We considered our identity and our future.<\/p>\n

Were we the Emergent Theories Reading Group? That title was too static; it spoke of a reform that was complete, finished, finalised and fixed. We did not recognise ourselves in those terms\u2026we are travellers, moving, never still for long. We recognised that where we were is not where we will always be. In terms of many of the notions and ideas that we were encountering, we were \u2013 we are \u2013 as Hannah Arendt has it, \u2018newcomers\u2019, we are \u2018not finished but in a state of becoming\u2019 (Hannah Arendt, The crisis in education.\u00a0 In Between past and future: Eight exercises in political thought<\/em>. (New York: The Viking Press 1993): 185).<\/p>\n

Yesterday we met again; this family of travellers. Circumstances recently have demanded that we meet virtually, that our thoughts are shared across the ether, that we Zoom into each other\u2019s living spaces or Team into each other\u2019s kitchens or \u2018Connect on-line\u2019 in some other way. We talked about the affordances of digitality, of the constant changes to the ways in which we communicate.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Attribution: Snufkin Image \u00a9 Tove Jansson, 1946.<\/p>\n

After we had met, I contemplated our discussions, our sense of always being in a state of becoming, and I was reminded of Tove Jansson\u2019s Moomin character Snufkin<\/em>. He is described as a \u2018philosophical vagabond who wanders the world\u2026\u2019. He meets new people with an openness and curiosity, a willingness to learn, to further his journey of becoming. I think that is what we are doing when we meet, when we talk, when we share our insights and our ignorances; when we share our successes and our disappointments. We continue with our becoming\u2026<\/p>\n

We meet about monthly in term time, if you want to join us in our travels, let me know at J.Doney@Exeter.ac.uk<\/a> and ask to join the Emerging Theories Reading Group. That\u2019s where we settled for our name \u2013 something active and in disequilibriation, something that recognises our state \u2013 individually and in community \u2013 of becoming, of our individual and collective philosophical vagabondery.<\/p>\n

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