A method of intuition: becoming, relationality, ethics

Author:

Coleman Rebecca1

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Cultural Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, County South, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK,

Abstract

This article examines social research on the relations between (young) women's bodies and images through Bergson's method of intuition, which suggests that the only way a thing can be known is through coinciding with the uniqueness of its becoming. I suggest that in this aim, intuition is, necessarily, an intimate research method. Rather than apply Bergson's argument to this area of social research, I examine the resonances between his philosophical method and the moves within social research to attend to the performativity, creativity or inventiveness of research methods. With a focus on my own research, which explored the relations between 13 girls' bodies and images from a feminist-Deleuzian position, I argue here that the interconnected issues of becoming, uniqueness and coincidence that Bergson raises connect with concerns in social research about ontology, concepts and methods. In particular, I suggest that relationality is crucial to these connections. Drawing through the significance of relations, I argue that intimate, intuitive research is desirable because of the ethics that it opens up and enables; ethics intimate in attention to the becoming unique to the object at stake in research and in the attempt to coincide with this uniqueness.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History

Reference32 articles.

1. Betterton, R. (1987) `How Do Women Look? The Female Nude in the Work of Suzanne Valadon', in R. Betterton (ed.) Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media . London: Pandora Press, pp. 217-34.

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