New Perspectives on Academic Writing: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die

ISBN-13: 9781350231535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Professor Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe University of Frankfurt

Opis

Particularly for the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, for which writing is their lifeblood, the crisis in academic writing has become existential. It is not hard to diagnose the disease, and its causes. This book showcases what we desperately need: radical alternatives, experiments we can try out, ways of writing that don’t just tweak the system but plot a different course altogether. This isn’t just about finding new genres, for these only change the surface appearance without altering the underlying dynamic. Rather, the editor and contributors focus on finding new ways to join thinking both with writing and the things of which, and with which, we write. Each chapter brims with the kind of liveliness, outspokenness and urgency that their theme demands. Far from tiptoeing around the edifice of academia they are intent on stirring things up, reigniting their scholarship with a fuse of activism, in the hope of setting off an explosion that could send ripples throughout the academy.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die, Bernd Herzogenrath (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 1. The Structure and System of Academic Writing, Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, USA) 2. Walking on Sunshine, Jessie Beier & Jason Wallin (University of Alberta, Canada) 3. Science Fictioning Devices, David Burrows (Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK) and Simon O’Sullivan (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) 4. Mythoplasia and Fictioning in Academic Practice: “Writing, Other”, Liana Psarologaki (University of Suffolk, UK) 5. [Fill in the Blank], Kalani Michell (University of California, USA) 6. How can one be Farocki?, Rembert Hüser (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 7. Step 2 Hearing: “The Parties Agree to Use Their Best Efforts”. A Dramatic Academic Work, Jennifer Hayashida (USA) 8. Writing the Unwritable: Unraveling Worlds, Julie Vulcan (Australia) 9. Writing In Between, Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University, Australia) 10. Unwriting for the Anthropocene: Looking at the Disaster from the Inside…, David R. Cole (Western Sydney University, Australia) 11. La Mise en Abyme: Placing “Academic Writing” in Scare Quotes, Mick Wilson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 12. Abstract Academic Expressionism: an Alternative Aesthetics, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) 13. Affective Academic Writing, Bernd Herzogenrath (University of Frankfurt, Germany) 14. Write to Life, Erin Manning (Concordia University, Canada) Index