Intermezzo

This intermezzo introduces the idea of dragonfly methodologies. It starts by detailing the life cycle of a dragonfly and then connects to the body of a dead dragonfly on a train station platform and the different life spans non-human and multispecies kin have. Finally, it develops an argument for dragonfly methodologies, which explore what dragonflies offer to think differently about experiences. It proposes that dragonfly methodologies might be transdisciplinary, multimodal, or multidimensional. They are ever changing, constantly on the move, affective and affected by the engagement with human, non-human, and multispecies kin bodies. Dragonfly methodologies afford researchers time to think with both speed and slow-ness, moving-thinking-bodying experiences, helping us pay attention to things we may not have noticed enough.