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Poeticonceptual Craftship in Academic Research

Abstract

In this video letter, we discuss a mode of thinking and doing research that combines its scientific nature with a creative perspective. The experiments presented are part of our doctoral thesis carried out in an epistolary manner, as a knowledge production technology that incorporates delays. When weaving the thesis, using the verb “theser” that we invented, we activate singular manualities for the challenge of sewing, with the needle of language, the textile web of thought. Although, a priori, an academic thesis has a written format, from the tessitura we sewed, materialities emerged that include and go beyond the word, which we call poeticonceptual craftship. With this “manual” way, we grope for the research question, following it without prescribed formulas, because as each “theser” engenders itself along the path of investigation, walking.