The Nomadic Detective Agency (NDA), are forever becoming multiple, being nomadic, and amongst other personas, fictional detectives, philosophers, educational thinkers, critical post-humanists, artists and other more-than-human forms. As the NDA are a rhizomatic collective of thinkers, investigators, and visionaries, their purpose was not to solve mysteries in the conventional sense, rather they embarked on a quest to envision possible futures of cultural production and consumption and education.

They are real and imaginary.

Before they reformed in their present state (having existed in many forms before, being time travelling comic artisans shape shifters, Orlandoesque and Dr Whoish) they absorbed Plateau 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves?, from A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari 2004. P. 26-38). From reading of this text they understood that, ‘There are only multiplicities of multiplicities forming a single assemblage, operating in the same assemblage: packs in masses and masses in packs’ (p. 34). And, ‘To be fully a part of the crowd and at the same time completely outside it, removed from it: to be on the edge, to take a walk like Virginia Woolf… (p. 29).

“Let us create extraordinary worlds, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.” Our stories of experimentation in the context of Nomadic Detective Agency is one without an end. There is a continuous process of exploration, discovery, and transformation. As we navigate through these radical assemblages, we realise that experimentation is not just a method of learning; it is the essence of learning itself – an unending journey of growth, change, and boundless potential.

Here is a link to the Stories of Hope Reimagining Education book https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0462

The DOI is https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0462 and each chapter has its own DOI. You can access online for free, download as a pdf for free.

We have a chapter in this glorious book called, Becoming wildly nomadic with the Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage, and can be read a downloaded for free at: https://lnkd.in/eFUVQYMk (Nomadic Detective Agency https://lnkd.in/exZk_AqE).

‘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.’