This presentation explains my blogging journey - part of my PhD research project. I use concepts from Deleuze and Guattari to explore student learning in Obstetrics.

1. A nomadic journey
through blogging
Veronica Mitchell
Education Development Unit
Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Deleuze & Guattari
& Africa
Conference
University of Cape Town July 2015

2. PhD Research project
Supervisors: Dr Michael Rowe & Prof Vivienne Bozalek
Funding: National Research Foundation
The medical undergraduate curriculum
immerses students into
a weak health system
where abuse, neglect and disrespect
are prevalent
Developing
a socially-just pedagogy
in Obstetrics

4. Why blogging?

5. Images & Text

6. Openness

7. A nomadic subjectivity in transposition
constitutes the possibility of weaving together
different strands and indicates (as in music)
“variations and shifts of scale in discontinuous
but harmonious patterns”
Braidotti, 2006:5

9. Images

10. Segmentarity

11. Rhizomatic …

12. It is anti-genealogical,
with a multiplicity of connections and dimensions,
not constrained through bureaucracy
rather a process that
“acts on desire by external productive outgrowths”
Deleuze & Guattari 1987:14

13. Beyond arborescent thinking

14. A changing educational landscape
Fascicular root-thinking

15. The assemblage
an affective flow
Posthumanism
perspective

16. 6
Rhizomatic
principles
heterogenity
multiplicity
asignifying
rupture
cartography
decalcomonia
connection

17. connection

18. heterogenity

19. multiplicity

20. asignifying rupture

21. asignifying rupture

23. "the map does not reproduce
an unconscious closed in on itself;
it constructs the unconscious.
It fosters connections between fields ...
[as it is] open and connectable in all of its
dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible
to constant modification".
Deleuze and Guattari 1987:12

24. decalcomonia

25. my becoming-researcher,
becoming-art-creator,
becoming-iPad
contrasts with the established
majoritarian assemblages that
foreground binaries
such as self/other and researcher/data
Clark 2012
Conclusion

26. Valuable insights
gained through
Deleuze & Guattari concepts
Conclusion

28. Thank You

29. Licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa License.
References
Barad, K. 2007. Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of
matter and meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. 2006. Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Clark, V. 2012. Art practice as possible worlds. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2012) 2 & 3:
198–213.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari. F. 1987. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia.
Trans. B. Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Sellers, M. 2013. Young children becoming curriculum: Deleuze, Te Wharriki and curricular understandings. Routledge.
My blog http://phd4veronica.blogspot.com/