ABSTRACT

Savransky draws from the psychologist and pragmatic pluralist William James. Their inspired ‘duet’ has resulted in my own rendition of meeting a ‘pluriverse’ in all its wholly sensory and transitional possibilities to enable and envision a world in which humans and non-humans can flourish. In keeping with current scholarly interest in the ‘multiverse’ as a useful way to ‘unhinge pedagogy and practice from dominant notions of linear time, child development and learning. As Deleuze and Guattari reminds us, life is immanent and binds us in our earthly cosmology to all its rich and vibrant possibilities and potentialities. As Savransky asserts in his notion of ‘worldquakes’ we are ‘muddled, messy, gripping and entangled’ in what they aptly term turbulent and ‘trembling togetherness’. The choreography resulted in an orchestration which was unplanned and spontaneous, the rhythms, tempos and flows finely attuned as we moved through each other, undoing dichotomies of self and other, finding opportunities for retouch, reparation, rest and reprieve.