TY - JOUR
T1 - Conferencing Otherwise
T2 - A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment
AU - Osgood, Jayne
AU - Taylor, Carol A.
AU - Andersen, Camilla Eline
AU - Benozzo, Angelo
AU - Carey, Neil
AU - Elmenhorst, Constance
AU - Fairchild, Nikki
AU - Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka
AU - Moxnes, Anna
AU - Otterstad, Ann Merete
AU - Rantala, Teija
AU - Tobias-Green, Karen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of “the academic conference” and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This “what if” and “what else” thinking has manifested in experimental and subversive doings otherwise at a series of academic conferences. The storying practices presented in this article were made possible by the vital materialism of a shared google.doc. It was within this virtual environment that we attempted to weave diffractive accounts of what conferencing otherwise produces. This writing experiment offers a series of speculative provocations and counter-provocations to ask what else does conferencing make possible. This article is an invitation to the reader to plunge in and wallow within the speculative accounts which ensue and to contemplate the possibilities of breaking free from sedimented ways of neoliberal conferencing.
AB - This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of “the academic conference” and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This “what if” and “what else” thinking has manifested in experimental and subversive doings otherwise at a series of academic conferences. The storying practices presented in this article were made possible by the vital materialism of a shared google.doc. It was within this virtual environment that we attempted to weave diffractive accounts of what conferencing otherwise produces. This writing experiment offers a series of speculative provocations and counter-provocations to ask what else does conferencing make possible. This article is an invitation to the reader to plunge in and wallow within the speculative accounts which ensue and to contemplate the possibilities of breaking free from sedimented ways of neoliberal conferencing.
KW - academic conferences
KW - affect
KW - arts-based methods
KW - feminist new materialism
KW - posthumanism
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U2 - 10.1177/1532708620912801
DO - 10.1177/1532708620912801
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091205959
SN - 1532-7086
VL - 20
SP - 596
EP - 609
JO - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
JF - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
IS - 6
ER -