Profaning as Artful Inquiry: Fuck Around and Find Out . . . the Seductive Lure Into the Sublime
Published online on February 12, 2026
Abstract
Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
This paper unsettles the easy optimism and moral aesthetics that can domesticate arts-based research into consumable, uplifting products. Drawing on profane methodologies and artists who have jolted us, we embrace irreverence, obscenity, and the “fuck it” ...
This paper unsettles the easy optimism and moral aesthetics that can domesticate arts-based research into consumable, uplifting products. Drawing on profane methodologies and artists who have jolted us, we embrace irreverence, obscenity, and the “fuck it” ...