Attunements towards becoming minor: fabulations from a tiny house movement

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Wise, Patricia H

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Bosman, Caryl J

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2022-08-08
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Attunements towards becoming-minor: fabulations from a tiny house movement is a contemplation on the notion of ‘becoming’ as explored in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, and specifically on becoming-minor – a concept taken up productively by scholars in widely varying fields. My work emerges from in-between a study of the Australian tiny house movement and tiny house practices; the fuzziness of research and method in post-qualitative research; and my personal and scholarly learning experiences in the arts and humanities. The tiny house study was undertaken as a post-qualitative assemblage composed, decomposed and recomposed by the desires and becomings of actual people caught up in the messiness of life. Their voices are not data. They emerge as co-narrators alongside the thoughts of other scholars, contributing to the overall story of the thesis. The inquiry is carried through writing – framed as thinking/writing – and the concept of fabulation, understood by Deleuze and Guattari as a creative force capturing percepts and affects via a general becoming. In its aspect as storying and storytelling, fabulation is open to the future and articulates ‘a people to come’. My co-constitutive practice of thinking/writing also acknowledges the ethical and aesthetic tensions and struggles that can be experienced in becoming-academic. This project becomes a dissertation in line with what it contemplates and as such, it does not arrive at any particular knowledge claim. Instead, it inaugurates a minor inquiry upon itself in response to a problem that emerged from its own middle, in order to find out what it is and what it can do. It bears witness to its own deconstruction, as a formal thesis and as a tiny house research project, through movements of thinking/writing with becomingminor as a concept for inquiry. I take ‘concept’ as ‘a practice that thinks’ (Manning 2016, p.27) which has had ethical, methodological, structural and stylistic implications for what a dissertation might be.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc

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Tiny house movement

Becoming-minor

Minor architectures

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