Reem Al-Mahmood makes the very good point that "Much of the literature on e-learning tends to bypass the affective and emotion realms, tending towards more instrumental and measurement influenced study designs." Hence this examination of the "pedagofy of desire" in order to "explore how subjectivities and desires are (per)formed in a 'more than human way' and how places of (e-)learning are ―affectively charged." I'm less interested in the perspective from Actor-Network Theory and more in the perspective from Non-Representational Theory (see also the Abas paper, below). This is a very small-scale study, 24 people, focusing on what the author calls "rich design patterns" or as we see here, three "vignettes" - "(Dis)Connections: Sink or swim …?; (Dis)Locations: Encaged and exasperated …?; (Dis)Mantlings: (Sacred) Rituals …?" Now I sometimes find these descriptions in the couse of a study to be a bit forced and artificial - is the subject really feeling disconnected, or is this just a response that is encouraged by the context. But there's still a really important sense in which it is necessary to explore what we (as learners) want and feel in addition to what we know (or need to know). Really good paper.
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