• The Poethics of Scholarship

    Author(s):
    Janneke Adema, Kaja Marczewska, Frances McDonald, Whitney Trettien
    Editor(s):
    Post Office Press (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Publishers and publishing, Arts--Experimental methods, Open access publishing, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Other
    Tag(s):
    diffractive reading, entanglement, horizon of the publishable, scholarly poethics, thresholds, Ethics of care, Experimental publishing, Open access
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6DN3ZV67
    Abstract:
    This pamphlet explores ways in which to engage scholars to further elaborate the poethics of their scholarship. Following Joan Retallack, who has written extensively about the responsibility that comes with formulating and performing a poetics, which she has captured in her concept of poethics (with an added h), this pamphlet examines what connects the 'doing' of scholarship with the ethical components of research. Here, in order to remain ethical we are not able to determine in advance what being ethical would look like, yet, at the same time, ethical decisions need to be made and are being made as part of our publishing practices: where we publish and with whom, in an open way or not, in what form and shape and in which formats. Should we then consider the poethics of scholarship as a poetics of/as change, or as Retallack calls it, a poetics of the swerve (clinamen), which continuously unsettles our familiar notions? This pamphlet considers how, along with discussions about the contents of our scholarship, and about the different methodologies, theories and politics that we use to give meaning and structure to our research, we should have similar deliberations about the way we do research. This involves paying more attention to the crafting of our own aesthetics and poetics as scholars, including a focus on the medial forms, the formats, and the graphic spaces in and through which we communicate and perform scholarship (and the discourses that surround these), as well as the structures and institutions that shape and determine our scholarly practices.
    Notes:
    This pamphlet is published in a series of 7 as part of the Radical Open Access II conference, which took place June 26-27 at Coventry University. More information about this conference and about the contributors to this pamphlet can be found at: http://radicaloa.co.uk/conferences/ ROA2. This pamphlet was made possible due to generous funding from The Post Office, a project of Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures and the combined efforts of authors, editors, designers & printers.
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    Publisher:
    Post Office Press and Rope Press
    Pub. Date:
    25-06-2018
    Version:
    Pamphlet
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    Attribution

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