The second of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now. A major theme within this special issue is the ways in which the creativecritical self is incorporated within networks of other selves.
Guest Editors: Daniel Juckes and Stefanie Markidis.
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An introduction to the second of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now.
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This article focuses on creativecritical citational devices, positioning creativecritical writing in relation to scholarly research and the academic writing it typically results in, as well as performative writing and autotheory.
- Special issues: creative works“Asterism” is a verse letter to friend and poet, John Watson, offering autobiographical reflections on the nature of home and how to be at home in the world.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis braided case study considers how the paradox of surrender and the awe of not-knowing may hold space for the inchoate and the formlessness that precedes form.
- Special issues: creative worksIn this fictocritical short story, Benjamin and a cast of Moroccan characters watch and analyse The Blue Caftan through the lens of a fictional lecture on Moroccan male sexuality.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article is a fictocritical examination of current research in/with/for the Nightcap National Park, performing the value of the form for the study of place and its place beings.
This creativecritical essay investigates the author’s object-oriented mania and her anticipatory relationship to “happy objects” through the lens of obsessive-compulsive disorder, inheritance, hoarding, and the empty promise of capitalism.
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Exploring creativecritical writing as “arts of living”, this essay addresses life writings that reflect a vibrant more-than-human relationship: the topic of gardens and gardening.
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This creativecritical piece focuses on my relationship with Artaud, a rescue Kelpie I taught to bark, and in particular on transference love which, for Lacan, is predicated upon knowledge.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article explores the experiences of three instructors of “Thinking Writing: Theory and Creativity” (postgraduate course, University of Melbourne) to unpack the issues in being critical theorists and creative writers.
- Special issues: creative works“We are making a boat, love” is a bookish multimodal experiment-in-the-making that works with/into/because Ania Walwicz’s Boat (1989) and as an exemplar of Eades’s écriture matière (2015).