Writing and Immanence: Concept Making and the Reorientation of Thought in Pedagogy and Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9780367723187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

UK) Gale Ken (University of Plymouth

Opis

Writing and Immanence explores a radical re-imagining of writing, immanence in inquiry and the possibilities for autoethnographic practice.

Recenzje

"Gale’s book is a breakthrough in the most marvelous sense of that idea—of breaking through a dogmatic image of thought organized by stale, impoverished concepts but never landing, refusing to be still, always immanent, always breaking through. This book—a writing always escaping its text— is possible only for an accomplished and respectful scholar like Gale who has read deeply and carefully the orphan line of philosophers—Deleuze, Guattari, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Spinoza—and followers like Massumi and Manning whose concepts have taken him up and had their way with him. It is the long preparation of such reading, a trust in writing, and the risk of giving oneself up entirely to a different image of thought—of Gale no longer being Gale—that makes this astonishing book possible. Here is the pleasure of a book overfull and spilling into a life. It should be required reading for all in an education Gale reminds us must be unsettling, provocative, capacious, unrecognizable, always immanent and coming into being differently." -- Elizabeth A. St.Pierre, University of Georgia, USA

"One Sunday in May, you read Writing and Immanence sitting at the beach, the sound and feel of the cold Scottish sea in and around you. As you take the text in, not only through your eyes but through all the senses it evokes, you feel the text’s waves, flows, and currents. Their power is irresistible, compelling. They take you up, they take you over. You close your eyes, hold still, the text continuing to move in you. Back home, the class you teach next day becomes a swaying of energies, a gathering of forces. You can’t help but feel it all. You’re in it, of it. Later, you write at a table outside in the Spring breeze. You haven’t written for weeks, you haven’t understood what you’ve been missing, and it’s been this: this book floods into you, sweeping you with it, picking up your hand, your pen, your notebook; and writing begins." -- Jonathan Wyatt, University of Edinburgh, UK

Spis treści

Foreword/Commentary/Transversal Diffraction  A Prelude?  An Act of Introduction? Introducing? Middling? When Does the Book Begin?  Acts of Embodiment: Bodies/Bodying/(Em)bodying…  Acts of Process over Substance  Acts of Affective Presencing  Acts of Returning to the Rhizome  Acts with and of Posthuman Empiricisms  Acts of Resistance to the Urge to Transparency  Acts of Diary, Notebook and Journal Making  Writing Acts as Immanent Doing  The Final Act? How Can Becomings Conclude?  References

O autorze

Ken Gale works in the Institute of Education in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth, UK. His main philosophical and academic interests can be realised when speculation, invention, experimentation and concept making as creative and eventful doing are brought to life in pedagogical practices and research in education.