Navigating academic non/sense: A collective coda on response-able research ethics

This coda begins with a commentary on the ethical and philosophical dynamics that inspired this special issue, emerging from two conversations around the ridiculousness of navigating ethics approval processes that are detached from the research itself. In what follows, rather than rehearsing the arguments from the special issue, the contributors respond to a provocation about the difference that was rendered possible through a process of writing with and against academic non/sense. What emerges from their responses is a sense that ethico-onto-epistemological ‘response-ability’ to academic non/sense takes in a multitude of forms by which scholars have endeavoured to make sense of the academic systems we have inherited and bequeath them to future scholars in the service of more just approaches to knowing and being with/in the world. Copyright © 2025 Addleton Academic Publishers.