ABSTRACT
Thinking through the affordances of everyday video technologies, this chapter reflects on a speculative research methodology and its processes of shooting, editing, and sharing of videographic knowledge on ordinary violence in Istanbul. Memories and perceptions of what violence looks like, how it feels, and how it affects the micro-constitution of everyday life is visualized through participant-generated smartphone and wearable camera footage, which resulted in a research video as a speculative sense-making platform where visual friction, silence and confusion in raw footage are expressed in filmic colour, sound and rhythm. The chapter makes the case for speculation as a strategy to sense what world-building opportunities might appear once the will to certainty is consciously done away with.
