ABSTRACT
Samantha Frost wrestles with a brilliant material figuration of the human body as a “biocultural creature” where, to describe humans as creatures here is to be held to account for human creatureliness, for the ways that humans, like all other creatures, are alive and able to stay alive because they are embedded in and draw manifold forms of sustenance from a habitat of some kind. Postqualitative scholars often attend to a kind of chaos in their data-doing, where: Inquiry should begin with the too strange and the too much. In fact, to body postqualitative data is to complexify the tension, enrich the pressure, with which bodies come to matter. It is working with data in ways that question our flesh, that take caffeine and our shifting familiarity with it, as much a player in the question of research as one’s computer or camera.
