For centuries the autopsy has been a key technology in Western culture for generating clinical/medical as well as cultural knowledge about bodies. This article hails the anato-medical autopsy as a generative trope and apparatus in reconfiguring Western humanist knowledge of bodies and bodies of knowledge and takes up the possibilities of working with the concept of autopsy in disrupting qualitative research methodology. In doing so, the article outlines and returns (to) a series of research-creation experiments assembled at an academic conference, which engaged with the challenges for social science knowledge laid out by Law’s (2004) After Method book. Our research-creation experiments centred autopsy as a theoretical-methodological gaze and apparatus for de-composing qualitative research methodology by engaging with post-humanist and new material feminist thinking.

几个世纪以来，尸检一直是西方文化中产生关于尸体的临床/医学和文化知识的一项关键技术。本文称赞解剖医学尸检是重构西方人文主义关于身体和知识体系的知识的生成性比喻和装置，并探讨了使用尸检概念来破坏定性研究方法的可能性。在这样做的过程中，本文概述并返回了在学术会议上收集的一系列研究创造实验，这些实验涉及 Law (2004) After Method提出的社会科学知识挑战。书。我们的研究创造实验将尸检作为一种理论方法论凝视和仪器，通过参与后人文主义和新材料女权主义思想来分解定性研究方法。