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A Speculative Ethics for Designing with Bodily Fluids

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Posthumanist Ethics and Activism Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Abstract

This essay performs a speculative ethics in designing with a researcher’s own bodily fluids. This is through the creation of “performative texts”, which are autoethnographic accounts of past experiences in which written words perform through visual and spatial compositions alongside verbal readings aloud. I present three performative texts about moments of discomfort in designing with milk from my own breastfeeding relationship. They are to reflect upon felt experiences of potential harm and to understand social and material relations of care. From these I offer three possibilities for how HCI might consider the ethics of first-person research in attending to more-than-human entanglements: unsafe spaces, situated escapes, and censored inclusion. These possibilities and the approach of performative texts contribute to research for more sustainable futures by exploring the decentering of humans through an intimate engagement with the self.

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2003Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter 1993Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care 2006Queer Phenomenology 2005Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance 2010Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self 2021Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds 2021Watching Myself Watching Birds 2017Matters of care: speculative ethics in more than human worlds

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