Dialogue as a Requiem for Analysis

• Published in: Cultural studies, critical methodologies Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 263 - 266
• Main Authors: Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely, Kuntz, Aaron M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.08.2013
• Subjects: Cultural studies; Death; Dialogue; Methodology
• ISSN: 1532-7086; 1552-356X
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708613487871

In this article, we offer dialogue as a means to avoid the objectification of data and the procedurization of analysis that so permeates traditional visions of educational inquiry. For our work, dialogue operates simultaneously as a means of inquiry, an engaging form of data, and an entwined means of analysis that disrupts normative formations of research as progressively linear. In this way, dialogue brings about the productive death of data-as-object for analysis. Functionally, our article is a dialogue, one that serves as a requiem for conceptions of analysis as outside data while simultaneously foregrounding data as dialogue. We present our dialogue asynchronously so as to exacerbate our resistance to synthesis and our commitment to a constant rebuilding of understanding. Our asynchronous representation underscores our commitment to dialogic contact, wherein texts live in contact with other texts, joining these texts to our dialogue.