transparent diffraction

Conventional social scientific analysis, guided by and aiming at ideals of reproducibility, values transparency: show your data, show your code book, show your coding procedures. "Showing the analytic work of the ethnographer" has been a PECE substantive logic from the get-go, but hasn't it been a a design logic too? Memos were a key part of this; what does it mean that they have been so underutilized? 

An ethnographer's analyses exceed or ab-use codes and coding, they turn and twist and transform and multiply and open up. Ethnographer's analyses don't simply reflect worlds, nor do they just refract it via a reversible coding (a translational model); our analyses diffract worlds, mutliplying and differentiating interpretations in the process, kaelidoscopically. These diffractions exhibit patterns. They are not just an effect of an interpreting subject; interpretive diffractions happen through institutions: long-term scholarly genealogies, shorter-term schools and styles, accreted reading habits, etc. PECE tries to "invert" this perverse analytic infrastructure that always departs from a norm.

or maybe what we try to do is "show and tell," rather than simply "show"

or maybe this is better simplified to "analytic transparency"