ABSTRACT
Following Latour, the chapter takes the ‘shift from Certainty to Trust’ as a central issue for ‘creative research’ as a social act. In this context, it proposes ‘listening as notitia’ as a common psychosocial orientation that can underpin the openness necessary to any public performance of that trust in creative research. Adopting the conversational position it also espouses, the chapter discusses two very different, yet ultimately related, works. In doing so it addresses some of the presuppositions that underpin the assumptions of the categorical language used in research, and of the disciplinary mentality that underwrites that language.
