Assembling the Vitally Ambivalent Archive: Collaborative Journaling as Inquiry

This article takes up collaborative writing as both subject and object, assembling a vitally ambivalent archive through written and visual art journaling. Arguing for this mode of thinking to trouble ideas of authorship, the authors intra-rupt subjective entanglements vis-a-vis correspondence with myriad co-constituting elements assembling and disassembling thoughts and things. Engaging with material feminist and other critical cultural perspectives, the authors explore the humble journal’s role in collaborative inquiry. Private habits of practice come into dialogue, producing a vital and vulnerable resistance to singularity and incitement for becoming-with conceptual-material experimentation and negotiation.