Bringing Monsters to Life Through Encounters with Writing
Bringing Monsters to Life Through Encounters with Writing
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通过写作让怪物栩栩如生
DOI：
10.1007/978-981-13-2065-1_1
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
18.2
通讯作者：
S. Riddle
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作者：
E. Honan;D. Bright;S. Riddle
作为研究人员，我们大部分时间都花在“写作”上。作为写作的研究成果被认为是我们研究成果的重要组成部分，这是通过引用指标和排名期刊和出版商列表来衡量和监管的。写作要被认可并算作研究，就必须出现在特定的渠道上，每个渠道都对什么是研究提出了自己的某些要求。我们担心，这助长了一种荒谬的学术机器，就像戈德堡机器一样，它有了自己的生命，存在只是为了延续自己复杂的联系和齿轮系统，对最初的写作和成为作家的愿望是任意的。这种学术出版机构对其内部机制给予特权，僵化了其特有的联系，束缚了我们的写作成果，而不是在作者、文本和读者之间寻找和扩大新的、不同形式的联系。我们担心，这种部分的安排会使我们成为学院派作家，他们是惰性的、死的、编码的、排名的、无精打采的数字。所以我们问，如果我们把这些无意义的东西放在一边，而是进行实验，与写作进行不同的接触，让写作本身成为我们探索的方法，会怎么样？沿着劳雷尔·理查森（Laurel Richardson）创造的道路，我们将探讨，如果我们绕过死亡和被肢解的组合，而是直接将自己插入火花中，将会产生什么样的充满活力和热情的怪物创造？这样的写作实验会给我们带来生命吗？还是我们的怪物只会给我们带来折磨而不是帮助？
As researchers, much of our time is spent in the act of ‘writing’. The production of research as writing is considered an essential part of our research outputs, which are measured and policed by citation metrics and ranked journal and publisher lists. For writing to be recognised and counted as research, it must appear in certain outlets, each of which makes its own certain demands of what is judged to be research. This, we fear, feeds a nonsensical academic apparatus, much like a Goldberg machine that has taken on a life of its own, existing only to perpetuate its own complicated systems of connections and cogs and wheels, arbitrary to the originary desire to write and to become-writer. And this academic publishing apparatus privileges its internal machinery, ossifying its peculiar set of connections, trapping our writing production rather than seeking out and augmenting new and different forms of connection between writer and text and reader. We fear that this arrangement of parts produces us as academic writers who are inert, dead, coded, ranked and listless numbers. And so we ask what if we were to put these nonsenses aside and instead undertake experiments and different encounters with writing, where the writing itself becomes our method of inquiry? Following in the pathway created by Laurel Richardson, we investigate what monstrous creations, full of vitality and fervour, might be made possible if we were to bypass the dead and dismembered assemblage and instead plug ourselves directly into the spark? Would such experiments with writing bring us to life or would our monsters simply offer us torment rather than succour?