Trace
Citation without route
This room gathers writing, citation, publication, playlist, and referenced works that move through the doctoral project without becoming a map of it. It is not a bibliography. Not a route through the argument. Not a list of influences to be mastered. A gathering of what has touched the work without settling it.
Nothing here completes the route. It remains as trace.
“us is I is we is them is you (is none of the above)”
Languaging the everyday infrathin with Edward Reardon / chapter / 2026
This section gathers writing that has emerged from, returned to, or moved near the doctoral project. These works are not listed as outputs. They remain here as fragments: lines, titles, images, citations, and unfinished returns.
Not a CV.
Not a publication record.
Not evidence of productivity.
Writing as pressure carried elsewhere.
Writing
Published and developing works carrying the thesis into other forms
“It considers.
It calls.
It screams.”
(Hara)wayfaring myths as acts of activism
conference presentation / Adventures in Posthumanism /2024
Divergent Bodies: Kin in the difference conference presentation with Ruth Churchill Dower / ECQI 2025
“A sociality without determinable borders.”
Keeping the Problem Alive PIEOJ 2026
“If Deleuze gives me a ceiling, then I do not honour Deleuze by pretending it is the sky.”
Whose House Is This? Building a Thesis Without Apologising conference paper/June 2026
“At some point, you have to ask whose
house you are building in.”
Whose House Is This? Building a Thesis Without Apologising conference paper / June 2026
“We are not concerned with our improvement. Nor yours.”
Languaging the infrathin of the everyday un/clear co-authored with Edward Reardon / book chapter / 2026
“To bind curriculum to solutions, in this sense, is to simplify life in order to make it governable.”
“The demand for solutions exerts a quiet pressure toward closure.”
Keeping the Problem Alive PIEOJ 2026
Sixteen Against the Statute
RERM Special Edition 2027
“Policy does not enter the classroom as instruction but as atmosphere.”
“A philosopher is not taken seriously by being kept intact.”
Whose House Is This? Building a Thesis Without Apologising conference paper/June 2026
“Duration introduces a form of hesitation into critique—not as indecision, but as attentiveness.”
Keeping the Problem Alive PIEOJ 2026
“What is learned is not child development, but how quickly a category travels.”
Sixteen Against the Statute
RERM Special Edition 2027
Not a playlist
Not entered from the beginning
John Cage / Delia Derbyshire
Language saturates
Bob Dylan / The Beatles / Steve Reich / PJ Harvey
Duration holds
The Stone Roses / The Velvet Underground / Pink Floyd
Indifference persists
Antonio Vivaldi / György Ligeti / Johann Sebastian Bach
Almost nothing
Arvo Pärt / Björk / Portishead
Replacement without event
Radiohead / The Glitch Mob / Nine Inch Nails
Noise remains
Nirvana / The Doors / The Prodigy / PJ Harvey
Playlist
a listening apparatus, not a soundtrack
This section gathers music, sound, repetition, silence, saturation, duration, noise, and almost-nothing that remained with the thesis as it was written.
These tracks do not accompany the work as background. They do not explain it. They do not illustrate it.
They form a listening apparatus: a way of staying with pressure, collapse, endurance, interruption, and what continues after sense begins to fail.
Stray listening trace
Kristīne Balanas / Margarita Balanas / Vivaldi, Summer
Not a soundtrack.
Not accompaniment.
A listening apparatus for what the thesis could not leave behind.
Works
fragments, working surfaces
Not process.
Not archive.
Not the making-of.
A wall before it became chapter.
A table before it became argument.
A page before it became answerable.
Notes held until they failed their order.
Diagrams drawn where no route would hold.
Drafts under drafts.
Books, pens, tape, paper, objects, crossings-out.
The thesis did not arrive clean.
It accumulated.
The matter argument passed through.
