Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Unhinged, an Alliance : Creativecritical Writing and Ecstatic Citations
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This contribution will focus on creativecritical citational devices. We will position creativecritical writing in relation to scholarly research and the academic writing it typically results in, as well as performative writing and autotheory (a performative form in itself). Following Katherine McKittrick’s provocation “What if the practice of referencing, sourcing, and crediting … takes us outside ourselves?” (2021, p. 16), we understand creativecritical citational works as ecstatic: they stand outside themselves.

'At the same time, performative writing’s citationality creates an “affective alliance with writing itself” (Pollock, 1998, p. 94) – “affective alliance” being key in autotheory too. Ecstatic citations, then, allow text and voice to transcend themselves while opening up to these alliances, becoming other-like in the process. McKittrick names this as an unknowing and unhinging of the self (2021, p. 16). Similarly, Amy Hollywood describes “the self-shattering that occurs through identification with the lacerated textual other” (2002, p. 59). These creativecritical citational gestures imply an ecstatic merging with textualities and subjectivities that are radically different: historically (the anachronistic), existentially (the non-human) and even ontologically (the fictional).

Putting all of this together, in this creativecritical contribution we will examine writing that becomes ecstatic, both in form and content, more self-expanding than self- reflective – luminous, slippery, weird.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Creativecritical Selves : Interconnection, Dialogue, Entanglement, Love no. 73 2024 29400126 2024 periodical issue 'This article introduces the second of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now. Alongside an attempt to speak to the themes of this issue – the ways in which the creativecritical self is incorporated within networks of other selves – it offers the second part of a conversation between the two editors, Daniel Juckes and Stefanie Markidis, as they reflect upon the composition of the special issue. The transcription of this conversation, which was recorded through Microsoft Teams and then edited for clarity, begins in the introduction to the first special issue: “Creativecritical spaces: Practice, pedagogy, methodology, the ineffable”.'  (Publication abstract) 2024
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