Hi, I am looking for research that offers an insight into how Deleuze's ontology of time is translated to methodology( ethnography). I would be grateful for your insight.
Ontology be it of Deleuze or any other philosopher, classical or "post-modern", cannot be "translated" into a methodology. Philosophy, including epistemology, ontology or even logic, are not a science or sciences, but rather teach us how to think. Thus, philosophy continues to think on the very same subjects, including time and its meanings. Deleuze time times three in which the present is "eradicated" as not yet comes clearly from Fernand Braudel triple division of historical time within his long-term theory. One can use ethnographic methods to research themes, as cinema time, discussed by Deleuze, but as part of a research question or problem from a concrete scientific field: cultural anthropology, sociology of cinema or any other domain for which ethnographic observation is useful. I hope that the following studies would be able to help your quest:
Bloch, M. 1989. « The past and the present in the present », Ritual, History and Power. London: The Athlone Press, pp. 1-18.
Chesneaux, J. 1996. Habiter le temps. Passé, présent, futur : esquisse d'un dialogue politique. Paris: Bayard Ed.
Gell, A. 1992. The Anthropology of Time. Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images. Oxford-Providence: Berg Publishers.
Malabou, C. 1996. Le temps, Paris, Hatier (coll. Profil 778, série Notions philosophiques).
Ricœur, P. 1983. Temps et récit, t. 1, Paris, Ed. du Seuil.
Tillard, B. 2011. Temps d'observation ethnographique et temps d'écriture. in: Les Sciences de l'éducation pour l'ère nouvelle : revue internationale, CERSE, Université de Caen, pp. 33-47.