“Something comes through or it doesn’t”: intensive reading in post-qualitative inquiry

MacLure, Maggie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7679-9240 (2024) “Something comes through or it doesn’t”: intensive reading in post-qualitative inquiry. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. pp. 1-8. ISSN 0951-8398

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Abstract

The article describes practices of “intensive reading” for post-qualitative inquiry, drawing on the work of Deleuze, with some examples from the author’s own research. To read intensively is to experience the forward propulsion toward something not-yet-present. That forward momentum, and the fragmented path that it carves through the library, has the potential, in the words of Stengers, to summon something “that has no stable illustration in this world.”.