ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a collaborative marginalia project between 34 international adult-participants. Marginalia refers to the notes in the margins of a page and is thought to influence readers. The beginning text for this project was assembled by me from snippets pulled from two separate books by Friedrich Nietzsche. The Ecce Homo portion of the assembled text discusses Nietzsche's walking practice, and how he believes walking aids creativity in thinking and writing. The Joyful Wisdom (Gay Science) portion of the assembled text is a description of a thought that Nietzsche claims came to him during a walk and is one of his more significant philosophical notions—the eternal return. A copy of the assembled text was sent to each of the participants, with the instruction that they engage with it using ‘marginalia.’ Each participant's text was then circulated to one other participant so they could each interact with another person's ‘marginalia.’ This chapter glosses the history of marginalia as a literary and pedagogical practice to think along the material aspects of the research-creation project with diverse publics.
