In Living the Questions: Dispatches From a Life Already in
Progress, Wade Tillett takes up the question of how to live - not
in some abstract sense, but in the urgent present. Tillett realizes
that how to live is a question that each of us is already asking -
and answering - moment-by-moment. These texts offer surprising
discoveries of how we are already inventing solutions to living in
multiple and discontinuous worlds through our daily actions. By
examining small specific pieces of daily life, Tillett explores how
we navigate through tentative, multiple, and often contradictory
positions. Among the many situations artistically explored are
visiting a church, narrating a family movie, exposing students to a
nearby school, re-working a found sculpture, taking a licensure
exam, attending a protest, and waiting for the El. By juxtaposing
multiple voices and images, he attempts to see how, in both method
and content, the texts themselves act on the worlds and lives they
describe. Tillett narrates from many perspectives: teacher,
researcher, writer, artist, architect, activist, parent, theorist,
and struggling protagonist of his own life. As such, many readers
sharing such roles will immediately find connections within the
book. For researchers struggling to find workable qualitative
methodologies after poststructuralism, the experimental methods
employed here may provide welcome inspiration. However, the book
seems aimed not so much at particular disciplines but at anyone
who, like Tillett, is actively searching for how to live. Anyone
involved in such a search will likely find hope and ways forward in
his methods that look at life as we are already living it.
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