Between Taking and Making Place: Exploring the Linkages Between Serres' Le Parasite and the Research Practice of Creative Intervention

This article explores the linkages between Serres' Le Parasite and the research practice of creative intervention via the analysis of an experimental film produced for the 2022 Space and Culture Conference on Taking Place and Making Place. The experimental film is intended as a provocation, in that it seeks to exceed the forms of conventional scholarship. In an effort to invent new modes of thought production, documented research materials of local sites are combined with a range of ideas and theories, blurring boundaries between theory, poetry, and practice, the dystopia of the virtualization of everyday life and the figuration of possible realities, glimpsed from a local viewpoint which follows the fluxes of emergences.

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This article examines the connection between Serres' Le Parasite and the research practice of creative intervention through the analysis of an experimental film produced for the 2022 Space and Culture Conference. The experimental film aims to challenge traditional academic forms by combining research materials from local sites with a range of ideas and theories, blurring the boundaries between theory, poetry, and practice, and exploring the dystopia of virtualization in everyday life and the potential realities seen from a local perspective.