The case for Bengt af Klintberg

This essay started as a collision at three conceptual intersections. The first intersection is historical. It represents the meeting of Robert Filliou's (1971a) Research at the Stedelijk with Gustave Flaubert's (1976, 1994, 2005) Dictionary of Received Ideas. The second intersection is economic and philosophical. It involves the intersection of knowledge production and research methodology, not the study of specific research methods but the comparative study of methods in the larger framework of a philosophy of science. The third intersection is the intersection of performance practice where it meets the 'framework for a generative dictionary of key themes and terms in contemporary performance research' (Allen, Kerr, and Thompson 2006: 55). [Introduction]