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Becoming Comfortable With Supercomplexity: Looking Back, Forward, In, Out, and Shaking It About!

Becoming Comfortable With Supercomplexity: Looking Back, Forward, In, Out, and Shaking It About!

Mark Selkrig, (Ron) Kim Keamy
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522580577|ISBN10: 1522580573|EISBN13: 9781522580584
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8057-7.ch040
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Selkrig, Mark, and (Ron) Kim Keamy. "Becoming Comfortable With Supercomplexity: Looking Back, Forward, In, Out, and Shaking It About!." Scholarly Ethics and Publishing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 810-825. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8057-7.ch040

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Selkrig, M. & Keamy, (. K. (2019). Becoming Comfortable With Supercomplexity: Looking Back, Forward, In, Out, and Shaking It About!. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Scholarly Ethics and Publishing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 810-825). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8057-7.ch040

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Selkrig, Mark, and (Ron) Kim Keamy. "Becoming Comfortable With Supercomplexity: Looking Back, Forward, In, Out, and Shaking It About!." In Scholarly Ethics and Publishing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 810-825. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8057-7.ch040

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Abstract

In this chapter the authors map various lines of flight they have taken that have informed their growing awareness of supercomplexity as a paradigm appropriate for the current epoch. Rather than concentrating on being researchers, the authors focus on how they are always becoming researchers, in between, like a rhizome. Illustrative accounts of the authors' research biographies are provided. They utilize a semi-fictional narrative, with images as a way to overlay fact-oriented research with fiction, in order to “play” with different ways of representing research. In the final section of the chapter, a number of emergent concerns, challenges and possibilities are considered in relation to working with supercomplexity. These musings offer the authors, as rhizome researchers with many conceptual tools and practices, a way to be open to new types of inquiry—a process that could be described as simultaneously knowing but not knowing.

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