Necromancy: A Hauntology of Grief, Material Culture, and Research Creation

<p dir="ltr"> Building out of the methodological frame of autotheory, my thesis work emphasizes personal writing to ground academic theorization in my own lived experiences of grief, study, and arts-making. Ultimately, I argue for the synthesis of these methodological and theoretical frames in order to contribute to the development of research creation methodologies for future research creation scholars by offering up a theoretical grounding for scanner art as a methodology and provide a unifying theoretical frame for hauntology, autotheory, material culture studies, and affect theory under my own critical conceptual metaphor of necromancy. In doing so, I hope to create spaces in which we can consider new ways of grieving that centre interrelationality, to recognize and emphasize our interconnectedness as living and non-living beings, and to do so through an attention to the enchantment of material objects. To carry out this necromantic practice, I emphasize three primary scopes of consideration within academic spaces: thinking spectrally, thinking aprotensively, and thinking interrelationally.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Keywords:</b> Remediation; Scanner Art; Photography; Affect; Autotheory; Thing Theory</p>