Digressive Methodologies: Inviting the Aesthetic and Material Into the Phenomenological

Abstract

In this article, we invite the concept of digression into methodological endeavors through the phenomenological tradition of postintentional phenomenology. Using five modes of inquiry—unsettle, unrest, untether, unearth, unfold—and the premise that “(m)ail art is a catalyst,” we invite readers to reconsider methodologies as joyfully and generatively digressive, while also unearthing possibilities to abandon the confines of hypercapitalism found within academia.