摘要：All research is research- creation, even if some research pretends otherwise. All research is necessarily, if at some times more weakly than others, an assemblage to produce the new. What masks this is that much of the new is “preterritorialised” in matrices of standardisation, from performance outcomes to the necessity for a press release telling the world of the immediate utility of an innovation. All research is research-creation because everything really is relative - although not in the lazy manner that many silly caricatures of cultural theory (such as Sokal and Bricmont’s) often suggest. Gilles Deleuze writes that this is “not the relativism we take for granted. It is not a variation of truth according to the subject, but the conditions in which the truth of a variation appears to the subject” (1993: 20). This truth of a variation is what is discovered by research-creation. Understood this way, all research is research-creation because the real, if you like empirical, world is constantly re-assembling itself, in process. This has been noted by philosophers from Alfred North Whitehead to Gilbert Simondon, Isabelle Stengers and Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari. As Brian Massumi notes, even ‘change changes’ (2002: 10). At the same time, even though all research is research-creation, to create the new with awareness that this is what we are doing makes all the difference in the world. All research is research-creation but not all research-creation is the same. Worlding (suggested music while reading - Cinematic Orchestra’s Breathe) Research-creation does not mimic biblical creation. It is not so much an engagement between us on the one hand and the world on the other. It is more a matter of what Massumi calls ‘worlding’. Here “the self-network is a worlding of the human” (Massumi 2002: 128). There is an ongoing mix of relations between habits, perceptions and the movement of our specific ecological contexts. To create the new is to participate in worlding differently. Here also we can understand the technics - by which I mean simply technologies and techniques - that are crucial to the activity of research-creation. In worlding -
