Thinking through picturing

In this article, I want to translate the tenets of what Karen Barad has called “agential realism” for the purpose of constructing a diffraction apparatus, through which students might produce situated knowledges. In doing so, I reflect on an experiment in which I have adapted a visual, qualitative research method called “snaplogs” to an agential-realist methodology. In this exercise, I have wanted to draw the students away from learning about practices, and orient them towards performing situated knowledges in and through practices in a way that is both sensible to and can render tangible the entangled “material-discursive” forces at play in particular practices. Drawing on this experiment,
I offer a way of interpreting agential realism as a methodology for educational
purposes, respectively for pedagogical application.