Punking the Academic Machine: Inquiring Artfully Through a Dramatic PUNK! Composition

Abstract

This composition foregrounds various conceptual and affective possibilities of punk rock as inquiring artfully. A punk rock stance carries its own implications for methods of inquiring artfully, and we offer a punk drama composition adventure to foreground wild thinking and rebellious doing of inquiry. We develop a punk composition to stimulate a punk rock ethos in the readers and artful inquirers. These ethoses encourage the listeners to live and process the political and rebellious elements of inquiry (music), utilize the years of vital energy and sarcastic commentary while representing affective and aesthetic forms of anarchy, urbanization, and potential alienation. This article should be read only while listening to punk rock.

Keywords

punk methodology delinquency delinquent inquiry methodological anarchy punk futures

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