Paper short abstract:

Drawing from critiques on method, discipline, and feminist STS, the author considers how queer relationality provides fertile ground for insurgent research-creation, creative scholarship, and move us to radically imagined territories of world-making for queer movements within and outside of STS.

Paper long abstract:

Drawing from critiques on method (Feyerabend, 1975; Law, 2004), discipline (Foucault, 1977; Brown, 2010) and feminist STS (Barad, 2007; 2013; Haraway, 1997), the author urges us to consider the ways in which queer relationality might provide fertile ground for insurgent research-creation, creative scholarship and move us beyond modest witnessing (Haraway, 1997) to radically imagined territories of world-making that builds queer movements both within and outside of academic STS. Considering queer STS as intimacy, transgression and disruption; we ask ourselves:

• How can queer STS disrupt capitalism by defying the 'objectification' of academic work? Will institutionalization help or harm our ability to resist the academic industrial complex?

• How can queer creative work make a generative mess of STS scholarship?

• Do we want to be institutionalized? If not, how can we survive as insurgents within the academic industrial complex?