The post with lots of brackets
Posted on | August 12, 2005 |
This week’s been productive: lots of ideas for the book finally coming together (and tested on a formidable group of colleagues and friends over drinks the other night), good feedback on the blogging chapter and affect article I finished last week (email me if you’re interested in reading draft copies) plus I’ve started making some concrete plans for my new project on cultural theory, technology and gender (it looks as though I’ll be hosting a workshop on these issues in mid-December - I’ll talk more about that as it develops). I’m getting quite excited about what I want to achieve in the next little while, which is good, because I was getting pretty sick of feeling ambivalent. I figure as long as I keep getting things like this emailed to me, I won’t be short on things to write about.
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August 12th, 2005 @ 2:50 pm
I’d be interested in at least knowing more about the affect article.
August 12th, 2005 @ 5:11 pm
Hi Jon,
Here’s the abstract. It’s for a special issue of the journal ‘Southern Review’ on the theme of Affective Communication/Communicating Affect. The article contains part of the argument of a book I’m writing on cultural studies, scholarship and affect.
ABSTRACT
This paper argues that an affective form of address in scholarly writing assists in both epistemological renovation and popular mobilisation. The term ‘scholarly affect’ aims to encapsulate two notions. As a means to describe the way in which writing can generate solidarity amongst colleagues, scholarly affect can be understood as a key dimension in intellectual innovation and disciplinary rigour, ensuring continued momentum for academic work within the university. Secondly, the greater diversity in scholarly performance that an affective mode of address makes possible expands the forms of subjectivity recognised as legitimate and authoritative within the university, promising to make academic work increasingly accessible to and vital for an audience outside the academy.
August 12th, 2005 @ 6:09 pm
Do you know Eleanor Kaufman’s book, Delirium of Praise? I’ve not read it myself, but it looks as though it’s in a similar ballpark.
August 15th, 2005 @ 1:23 pm
Yes it sounds quite relevant - a little more ambitious and highbrow perhaps! Thanks a lot for the reference.