ABSTRACT
Radical cartography recognizes such dynamic relationality as the affirmative challenge of potential; an open-ended not-yet through which alternative practices of living might manifest. The methodological technician eyes such dynamic change with suspicion, searching for procedures and technologies that might stay such movement, closing off the map in the name of prediction. Situating inquiry work as necessarily cartographic practice stems from the critical position of non-linearity: phenomena do not develop in linear fashion, the singular cause producing future effects. The chapter examines more specifically the notion of radical cartography and its implications for inquiry projects intending social change. Relational logics are situated on the precipice of history, contemporaneity, and future, dwelling in possibility and the potential for becoming other than we are.
