Street(-)wise History with Latour and Barad? Pushing Forward the Historiography of Education Through Activist, Posthumanist Exploration of Street Art in Porto, Portugal
摘要
This essay is grounded in activism with street artists in Porto, Portugal, having involved me filming and sharing (Instagram/YouTube) ca. 2150 (mainly musical) performances, mediating conflict, co-founding/-running a street artist association, and lobbying. My activism has come to tangle with historiography of education figured as writing/s- or drawing/s-together of knowledge effecting regarding education, in ways akin to the projects of Bruno Latour: ANT, tracing relational effecting through non/human collective effort across actor-networks and intricate webs of relations, and AIME folded through it, retracing ways actor-networks extend to bind together such effort. I analyse Latour’s compositionist approach through Karen Barad’s agential realist one and vice versa, attentive to differences that matter emerging, to explore possibilities for re-assembling (around) articulations (Latour) and re-membering enfolding-s (Barad) of education and street art through history and the city of Porto. I investigate what it entails to re-compose or re-turn (to) historical coemerging-s of street art and education as matters of concern that gather since they also divide or as phenomena marking inclusions constitutive of exclusions. I endeavour to do so street(-)wise, using film recordings of and interviews with street artists as well as more established history methods and source materials, all troubling time/s.