Full Description
In this book, authors working with Deleuzean theories in educational research in Australia and the United Kingdom grapple with how the academic-writing machine might become less contained and bounded, and instead be used to free impulses to generate different creations and connections. The authors experiment with forms of writing that challenge the boundaries of academic language, moving beyond the strictures of the scientific method that governs and controls what works and what counts to make language vibrate with a new intensity.
The authors construct monstrous creations, full of vitality and fervor, hybrid texts, part academic part creative assemblages, almost-but-perhaps-not-quite recognisable as research. Stories that blur the lines between true and untrue, re-presentation and invention.
The contributors to this book hope that something might happen in its reading; that some new connections might be made, but also acknowledge the contingency of the encounter between text and reader, and the impossibility of presuming to know what may be.
Contents
1 Bringing monsters to life through encounters with writing.- 2 Using pregnant text as a lure for collective writing and its monstrous effects.- 3 Unplugging from the Goldberg machine.- 4 Becoming monstrous: On the limits of the body of a child.- 5 An experiment in writing that flows.- 6 On being and becoming the monstrous subject of measurement.- 7 Signs to be developed: Experiments in writing.- 8 An experiment in writing that flows: Citationality and collaborative writing.- 9 'Terre Chérie - Ed U.K. Shone': A desiring machine for rappin' and extrapolatin' on the monstrosities of academia.- 10 Shifting sands: Writing across time.- 11 Falling in/out of languagings.- 12 Composing with the Chthulucene: Desiring a minor literature.- 13 Learning to fear the monstrous: Klossowski and the Immortal Adolescent.- 14 MmmAfterword: Writing monstrous.
