Zen and the art of aut-ethnography: a tribute to Robert M. Pirsig

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With the passing of Robert M. Pirsig, I felt that it was an appropriate time to write a tribute to his work and the influence it has had on my own theorising in regard to autistic ways of being. This reflection utilises the concept of an ‘aut-ethnography’ to examine passages that I had highlighted word by word when I first read Pirsig’s book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. These fragments contain links to a number of theoretical ‘lines of flight’ within my own work and that of others, from his concepts of dynamic ‘quality’ to his discussion on the tension between scientific method and lived experience.

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Milton, D. E. M. (2017). Zen and the art of aut-ethnography: a tribute to Robert M. Pirsig. Disability and Society, 32(10), 1671–1676. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1368889

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