Ad-Hoc Means Necessity: An Assemblage Machine Infused with Paranoia for Generativity's Sake

Jorge R. Lucero, Julio Cesar Morales

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Abstract

This chapter presents paranoia as a means to generativity. Through the paper's form and content, Lucero leverages Deleuze and Guattari's paranoiac machine and its state of nonterminating resistance to create a three-part paper that is a work of bricoleurmanship and a call to use `scary' parameters to make critical works in the world. The first part of the paper is the watercolor images by Julio Cesar Morales that are interspersed throughout the arrangement. These are images of undocumented migrants smuggling themselves into the USA by lodging themselves into different car parts. The second part is a conversation performed as an artwork between Lucero and the artist Morales. This exchange unfolds as poem and as a proposition for how to generate work through limitations. And the final part is a text about how the paranoia about standardization, particularly in creative practices and it the education of art, can be understood as a means to make `newness' not oppress it.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationParanoid Pedagogies: Education, Culture, and Paranoia
EditorsJennifer A. Sandlin, Jason J. Wallin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages189-206
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9783319647654
ISBN (Print)9783319647654
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Educational Futures

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