Thinking-through intravention: fieldworlding, becoming, and coaching in community-based esports

What happens when intervention moves to intravention? Inspired by Karen Barad’s agential realism and Martin Camiré’s notion of intravention, this paper diffractively traces and explores this question among others in a Danish community-based esports club, where national efforts are increasingly focused on getting esports players more physically active to promote health. Through coaching-coffee conversations, co-writing, and a PhD course, iii explore how inquiry can unfold as a response-able practice. Rather than offering a method or model, iii experiment with concept-portmanteaus (fieldworlding) and ontologically attuned noticing to stay with the trouble of what (more) is happening. Intravention here is not a solution, but rather a slowing down as a way of diffractively tracing and noticing how different differences matter and how coaching/inquiring might be reimagined beyond ideals of mastery and control. This is an inquiry of entangled worlding, where thinking-through/moving-with posthumanist theorising opens possibilities for inquiring otherwise, for re-orienting thought.