Writing with Deleuze in the Academy: Creating Monsters

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Bringing Monsters to Life Through Encounters with Writing (Eileen Honan, David Bright, Stewart Riddle)....Pages 1-14 Using Pregnant Text as a Lure for Collective Writing and Its Monstrous Effects (Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Adam T. Clark, Timothy Wells, Jorge Sandoval)....Pages 15-30 Unplugging from the Goldberg Machine (Eileen Honan)....Pages 31-43 Becoming Monstrous: On the Limits of the Body of a Child (Thekla Anastasiou, Rachel Holmes, Katherine Runswick-Cole)....Pages 45-60 An Experiment in Writing that Flows (Stewart Riddle)....Pages 61-71 On Being and Becoming the Monstrous Subject of Measurement (Susanne Gannon)....Pages 73-93 Signs to Be Developed: Experiments in Writing (David Bright)....Pages 95-105 An Experiment in Writing that Flows: Citationality and Collaborative Writing (Dagmar Alexander, Jan Bradford, Susanne Gannon, Fiona Murray, Naomi Partridge, Zoi Simopoulou et al.)....Pages 107-117 ‘Terre Chérie—Ed U. K. Shone’: A Desiring Machine for Rappin’ and Extrapolatin’ on the Monstrosities of Academia (Peter Bansel, Sheridan Linnell)....Pages 119-139 Shifting Sands: Writing Across Time (Linda Henderson)....Pages 141-159 Falling In/Out of Languagings (Carolina Cabezas-Benalcázar)....Pages 161-177 Composing with the Chthulucene: Desiring a Minor Literature (Naomi Barnes)....Pages 179-191 Learning to Fear the Monstrous: Klossowski and the Immortal Adolescent (David R. Cole)....Pages 193-203 Afterword: Writing Monstrous (Maggie MacLure)....Pages 205-209 Back Matter ....Pages 211-212