What are philosophical fieldnotes? What do they do? How might they welcome thinking/being differently? How are they philosophical? What do they have to do with postqualitative and posthuman inquiries, if anything? In exploring these and other questions, this writing foregrounds uncertainty and embraces rhythms of thinking-in-writing over straightforward descriptions and streamlined theorizations. In so doing, philosophical fieldnotes affirm, and perhaps even catalyze, the ongoing movement-in-thought necessary for inquiry. I invite readers to wander through the text, including its examples of fieldnotes and numerous reading lists in endnotes that came about in writing. I hope the text resonates with readers who find themselves experimenting with thinking-in-writing as a means of reimagining and reordering the world and may invite those who may want to start.
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