remaking ethics
These makings form my integrated inquiry into research ethics, not as compliance or afterthought, but as onto-epistemological and infrastructural praxis.
Rooted in feminist new materialism and relational ethics, with these makings, I trace how ethics is entangled with making, governing, and sharing of knowledge. I intervene at a different stage of the research process, challenging dominant academic structures and proposing alternatives that are situated, embodied, and co-created.
With these makings I offer a sustained and multi-placed argument for a remaking of ethics: from method to material, citation to circulation, and policy to practice. I move from critique to proposal, and from individual refusal to collective transformation.
I call for a relational, justice-oriented, and creatively embodied research ethics fit for our contemporary moments.
making ethics: praxis of care, refusal, and becoming- With this making I trouble the proceduralisation of ethics in academic systems and proposes a shift toward ethics as relational, iterative, and materially embedded. Drawing on Barad, Puig de la Bellacasa, and Ahmed, I remake research ethics as a becoming-with, grounded in care and refusal rather than oversight and compliance.
the practice of making ethics: methodological entanglements and speculative governance- With this making I extend this theory into methodological practice. I explore how ethics is enacted with intra-active entanglements of method, reflexivity, materiality, and place. Refusing the divide between data and subjectivity, foregrounding the ethical labour of doing research as sensorial, spatial, and affective acts.
making research public: ethics, politics, and the power of plural dissemination- Here I address the ethical stakes of research dissemination. I critique the epistemic violence of dominant citation economies, publishing infrastructures, and text-based legitimacy. I call for structural remaking of assessment frameworks, publishing platforms, and doctoral pedagogy. So, that multimodal, collaborative, and publicly engaged research is not just permitted, but centred.
entangling the pdf- This making moves between voice and text, not as translation, but as entanglement. The article, making research public, began as written critique, held in a PDF, and now sounds itself otherwise. Each form disrupts the other. Each remakes the other. This is not multimodality for access alone. It is method, relation, and accountability. A sonic-textual ethics. A refusal to be only one thing. A practice of staying with the tensions between what can be archived and what can only be heard.
ethics otherwise: a making with sound, cut, and refusal- This making with sound, cut, and refusal continues my inquiry into ethics as praxis, not as protocol but as relation, vibration, and care. With-in sound, image, and gesture I explore how ethics is felt, struck, and held across the material and institutional edges of research. Each movement, entry, seep, pulse, hold, with-in, and still moving, unfolds as a sensory encounter where listening, rhythm, and breath become ethical gestures. The hum, hiss, and beat act as thought: the cut is method, the pause is argument, the breath is relation. Here, i make theory tactile. Ethics is made not through explanation but through touch, sound, and resistance. A practice of making-with emerges, an ethics that leaks, reverberates, and lingers, refusing closure yet insisting on care. This is not illustration. It is a material thinking-with, a way of living otherwise.
Page, T. (2025). ethics otherwise: a making with sound, cut, and refusal. https://doi.org/10.17613/7721g-gy842