ABSTRACT
Can research be written in an ongoing and processual state? How can a doctoral thesis be approached from an ontology of becoming? In this chapter, I share my experience as an ethnographic researcher while writing my Ph.D. thesis, in which I explored the potentialities of visual documentation of learning phenomena in primary school by adopting Deleuze and Guattari’s ontology of becoming. To do so, I explain how I understood my Ph.D., how this affected its writing processes, and what potentialities and risks it entailed. When you are not a researcher but a becoming-researcher, you understand the processes, the times, spaces, and materials differently. They are all reconfiguring all the time. When you start writing, you have no idea how that thesis is going to end. While you are writing, you are making decisions. The Ph.D. thesis gets its own life in its writing. It means that your thesis is written in an open, creative and experimental way, and this cannot always be understood or welcomed by other researchers.
