ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins by highlighting the 'cultural value' debates, which embroil cultural practitioners and social scientists in shared endeavours. She arrives at these debates by way of cultural studies, hoping to impart some of cultural studies' generous and creative spirit into the somewhat instrumental concerns characterising cultural value discussions. From there, the author turns to sociology, delineating the emergence of live sociological methods. A queer turn follows, establishing some of the theoretical resources and emphasising the importance of reparative and affective modes of engagement for developing live practices of sociology. The author also presents some of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book explores the imbrications of aesthetics and politics. It focuses on the production of pedagogic space and performance. The book discusses the Live Art Research Hub, a collaborative experiment in live method, which produced encounters illustrative of live sociology's generative as well as representational capacities and potential.
