ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author turn to Angela Willey’s articulation of biopossibility, reading alongside Michelle Murphy’s proposal toward a topological sense of biopolitics. Angela Willey begins Undoing monogamy: The politics of science and the possibilities of biology by advancing a proposal toward thinking the relations between normative enlightenment-informed humanist science and questions of the possibilities that biologies make real otherwise. There are some concepts that stir postqualitative research, agitating its humble confidence and reminding the reader that to think with postqualitative propositions is a call that unfolds within the work of activating or actualising these provocations over and over again. Rather, they are processes that operate on molecular and bodied and social and naturecultural terrain, creating and re-creating how bodies might do clarity and scars. Bodying is an uncommon, not an egalitarian, proposition, especially in postqualitative research where the people work to attend to real ebbs and flows of a life that does not obey the ontoepistemological rules it inherits.
