Becoming wildly nomadic with the Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage

This experimental “unessay” explores the concept of becoming wildly nomadic as a lens for envisioning hopeful futures in creative Higher Education. Structured as a play, each “act” is inspired by a different plateau from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The narrative employs the fictional Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage (NDA-A) as a creative device to navigate the philosophical ideas within A Thousand Plateaus and to rethink and reimagine education more hopefully. Through its experimental form, this work aims to evoke joyful and just approaches to developing new educational practices, policies, and pedagogies for the universities of the future. By emphasising collective action and envisioning transformative possibilities, it seeks to inspire ways to collaboratively build a more just and equitable educational landscape for all.

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