Full Description
This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression. The book's point of departure is a conventional academic conference and its peculiar academic concerns (which many readers will only be too familiar with), using this to open up to broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying and 'finding out', in an attempt to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In this sense, this book is a methods book as much as a political/theoretical text that demands we (better) understand or know the worlds we enter, inhabit, to make it quiver otherwise.
Contents
Part I
1: how to read this book that is not a book
2: frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways
3: on writing
4: collective writing/writing collectively
5: playground relations
6: calling out (via) disjunctures
7: what is at stake?
A pause, a breather: I was distracted ...
PART II
8: black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks
9: perverse love letter
10: writing exhaustion - the unbearable weight of white feminism
11: composting anger: why I/we refuse your 'diversity' and the 'womanofcolour' tag
12: planet white boys
13: on exhaustion and enchantment
14: can feminism be a comma?
15: exhausted (again) of the normal
16: academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto
17: on writing and this book
PART III
18: a shaking...
19: feminist practices of knowledge formation...
20: trajectories....?
21: imagining other futures...
22: dreaming of other futures...
23: Poetics of a handbook - or some suggestions for better practices... (for those still in academia...)
24: be(co
