Shredding Acts | Jumble Poetry
In my doctoral work Politics of Matter, I examine the making and unmaking of political imaginaries through a composite field site spanning two contrasting yet interconnected landscapes in southern Spain: The industrialised agricultural coast of Almería and the rural mountains of the Alpujarra. Across these terrains, divergent visions coexist, collide and leave material traces that continue to shape the present. Drawing conceptual inspiration from Walter Benjamin's notion of constellations in The Arcades Project , the thesis rejects a singular narrative in favour of a multimodal assemblage of ethnographic fragments. I propose 'shredding acts' as a means of restaging their representation. What happens when we cut up the narratives we have inherited and refuse to leave them in the order in which we found them? Jumble Poetry is an experimental writing practice emerging from my doctoral project. I take fragments from the thesis – ethnographic encounters, hist...
