ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses Lyotard's question via a dispersion, circulation, and proliferation of counter-practices of authority that take the crisis of representation into account. It comes out of such ferment and is written against 'the merely deconstructive and the endlessly prefatory'. Believing that 'science is a performance', author's effort is to anticipate a generative methodology that registers a possibility and marks a provisional space in which a different science might take form. Seeking answers to such a project in inquiry as it is lived. The chapter works at the edges of what is currently available in moving toward a science with more to answer to in terms of the complexities of language and the world. It employs a strategy of excess and categorical scandal in the hope of both imploding ideas of policing social science and working against the inscription of another 'regime of truth'.