Dissertation
Ask No Questions: pursuits of a curious mind
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00823
Abstract
This artefact/exegesis thesis, Ask no questions: pursuits of a curious mind, is experimental in both its form and content. The research of the form explores ficto-critical practice within a metamodern sensibility to create a new memoir that examines the tension between subjective experience and rational knowledge. It is ficto-critical because it dances between the nonfiction creative, performative writing and expression of the writer’s lived experiences (the subjective), and compares and contrasts these with the theoretical, analytical narrative of others (the rational). The oscillation between and among the experiential and experimental, noesis and episteme, opinion and reason, the interior and the exterior, lodges it firmly in the field of the metamodern as this evolving sensibility has developed over the past twenty years. As a whole, this thesis falls within the memoir genre due to the autoethnographical process of connecting personal experiences to wider cultural, political and social meanings and understandings. That is, through descriptive and interpretive means, it recreates a selection of the writer’s life experiences in a reflexive way, to explore the tension between experience and knowledge, leading to an analysis of accompanying intersubjective impacts. These cultural and social impacts are the basis of the analysis of the content of the thesis. As a means to research, compare and contrast the writer’s lived experiences with others’ theories and writing, the thesis considers two threads of enquiry. These comprise developments in the socio-econ-political and the neuro-physics-philosophical disciplines. The outcome is intentionally open-ended, in keeping with the evolving nature of personal and scientific discovery. The hope is for the reader to think and reflect on their own experiences as individuals and in their relationship with society, their free-will and social connectedness, giving the thesis a wide focus inclusive of the micro and macro dimensions.
Details
- Title
- Ask No Questions: pursuits of a curious mind
- Authors
- Clare McAloon-Balfour - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Contributors
- Ginna Brock (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesPaul Williams (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre - Legacy
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00823
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991001298502621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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