Francesca Lewis teaches in the School of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion at York St John University. Her research focuses on diagnostic cultures, neuroqueer ontologies, and new materialist epistemologies. She is co-founder (with Veronica Heney) of the Mad Feeling Collective, an interdisciplinary research collective interested in lived experience, affect-led engagements with madness on TV.

• Introduction: Hope is a cruel mistress: why we need unstable knowledges, 1. Critiquing BPD/affirming borderline: Traversing the methodological borderland, 2. Borderline becomings: A new materialist reading of a history of instability, 3. Reading mad knowledges: Narrative, diagnostic, resistant, and diffractive methodologies, 4. Becoming uncategorisable: Borderline as diagnostician , 5. Becoming indeterminate: Borderline as philosopher, 6. Becoming unreal: Borderline as mystic, 7. Conclusion: Opening up the field of possibility for unstable knowledges

Francesca Lewis teaches in the School of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion at York St John University. Her research focuses on diagnostic cultures, neuroqueer ontologies, and new materialist epistemologies. She is co-founder (with Veronica Heney) of the Mad Feeling Collective, an interdisciplinary research collective interested in lived experience, affect-led engagements with madness on TV.

• Introduction: Hope is a cruel mistress: why we need unstable knowledges, 1. Critiquing BPD/affirming borderline: Traversing the methodological borderland, 2. Borderline becomings: A new materialist reading of a history of instability, 3. Reading mad knowledges: Narrative, diagnostic, resistant, and diffractive methodologies, 4. Becoming uncategorisable: Borderline as diagnostician , 5. Becoming indeterminate: Borderline as philosopher, 6. Becoming unreal: Borderline as mystic, 7. Conclusion: Opening up the field of possibility for unstable knowledges