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This chapter considers the underdetermined relations of the imagination and creative practice research, in an increasingly digital material world. Taking ethnographic methodological thinking as a technique for imagining with practice, digital visual technologies are thus refigured as ‘technologies of the imagination’ (Sneath et al. in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 6:322–344, 2009). The research focus is therefore on process, as practice and reflexivity—and the onto-epistemo-methodology of being with practice. Where underdetermined and incidental everyday practice (conceptual and material) presents potential for agitating processes, narratives and senses of knowing and unknowing (something) about the world, for an imagining of the possible—for memories, senses, futures. As a textual encounter, this chapter presents a layered account of practice-as-research.
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Oliver, J. (2017). Imagining Technique: Reflexivity, Ethnographic Arts and the Digital-Real. In: Gómez Cruz, E., Sumartojo, S., Pink, S. (eds) Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research. Digital Ethnography. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61222-5_10
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