My
performative paper ‘Conversation-as-Material’ has been accepted for inclusion
as part of the forthcoming Critical Reinventions symposium, at University of
East Anglia, 12 May 2018
About
the symposium: Recent years have been witness to a diversification in the forms
and registers of literary-critical writing. Conventional practice continues to
flourish, but alongside and in dialogue with an increasingly inventive field of
non-standard criticism. The reasons for the emergence of this field are
several. They include the so-called post-critical turn, contentious as it is,
and the desire for ‘reparative’ as well as ‘paranoid’ orientations in critical
practice; the long legacy of critical theory conceived as an ongoing
provocation to the content of the form of critical writing; the continued
health of small-press and open access publishing, where hybridized and
innovative modes of critical writing can flourish; and a renaissance in the
essay, along with renewed attention to its histories and formal possibilities. Critical
Reinventions aims to mark the diversity of formal invention in contemporary
creative-critical practice by focusing on the life, histories and potential
futures of a range of types of writing. As part of this symposium there will be
a roundtable discussion involving: Kate Briggs (This Little Art), Daniela
Cascella (Singed) and Sarah Jackson (Tactile Poetics)