Reorganizing our library during the pandemic, James secretly placed Jasmine’s copy of The Hundreds by his copy of Exercises in Style, the latter offering 99 different narrations of the same story. In ...our accidentally large archive of abstracts for which we never wrote papers, we had a collection of constrained writings, all iterations of our shared research narrative. Many of these were unsubmitted responses to calls for papers (CFPs), conferences we were not able to attend, or papers we never got around to writing. We share the following sample of 24 abstracts here as an invitation, should anyone wish to develop these ideas. Furthermore, abstracts themselves constitute a genre of scholarly communications, the art of which might be developed to make research more accessible, abstracts themselves being situated in front of paywalls. Ultimately, this project led to the 25th abstract and introduction to our podcast, the Researchers’ Cardbox.
The work of good editing creates openings for others to express their own ideas. The world is such that—to put it in the language of game theory—we must play cooperatively in the academy. The urgency ...of things needing our attention and action does not leave time for us to play strategic games wherein we compete with those who would be allies in our striving toward the flourishing of all.
The work of good editing creates openings for others to express their own ideas. The world is such that—to put it in the language of game theory—we must play cooperatively in the academy. The urgency ...of things needing our attention and action does not leave time for us to play strategic games wherein we compete with those who would be allies in our striving toward the flourishing of all.
The work of good editing creates openings for others to express their own ideas. The world is such that—to put it in the language of game theory—we must play cooperatively in the academy. The urgency ...of things needing our attention and action does not leave time for us to play strategic games wherein we compete with those who would be allies in our striving toward the flourishing of all.
To cite a text is to read it. A citation asserts that I’ve read what I cited. But more importantly, the way we cite indicates the quality of our reading. To have the right to use a text, we must ...fully engage with it. When our disposition seeks error, we miss the truth of the text. It’s within this spirit that I engage with Jasmine Ulmer’s “Writing Slow Ontology.” At bottom, slow writing deserves slow reading.
Narratives of migration can be without movement. When people are suddenly internally displaced, for example, they become non-citizens in their former home countries and are unable to move, much less ...leave. In instances such as these, we suggest that it may be a temporal – rather than spatial – displacement that has occurred. In so doing, we examine one aspect of temporal displacement: the perpetual state of waiting as a potential tool of bureaucratic control. This is a tool that operates along an axis of hope and anxiety in what may be an attempt to keep people exactly where they already are. This state of waiting appears throughout
Al-Tabuur
(
The Queue
), a translated and fictionalized novel written by Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz. As illustrated here, Aziz’s novel challenges notions that migration inherently involves progress, and instead shows what can happen when both time and movement seemingly come to a still.
Introduces a special issue of this journal that focuses on autoethnographic responses to the political. The essays in this volume are stories of faceful intimacy,moments where the personal and the ...political collide, where the relevance of the political impacts the most quotidian experiences. Rooted in the speculative present, they track not the landscape of what has happened but the potential of what might be. Politics operate at conjunctures—moments where both peril and possibility emerge. We might consider our work as that of creating an affective palimpsest, a record of the shifting experiences at the conjuncture of late-stageneoliberalism and the still-becoming social formation that will emerge as a response.
