Writing with Deleuze in the Academy Creating Monsters
In this book, authors working with Deleuzean theories in educational research in Australia and the United Kingdom grapple with how the academic-writing machine might become less contained and bounded, and instead be used to free impulses to generate diffe
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with Deleuze in the Academy Creating Monsters
Writing with Deleuze in the Academy
Stewart Riddle David Bright Eileen Honan •
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Writing with Deleuze in the Academy Creating Monsters
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Editors Stewart Riddle University of Southern Queensland Springfield Central, QLD, Australia
Eileen Honan Fiji National University Lautoka, Fiji
David Bright Monash University Clayton, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-13-2064-4 ISBN 978-981-13-2065-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2065-1
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Foreword
George Orwell (1946), in his essay, Why I Write, gave four reasons: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. In elaborating on the last of these, Orwell described a: desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
In spite of the impulse—and indeed imperative—to write that is visited upon all of us, there is little guidance on how to write—well or otherwise. Generic research texts, of the kind aimed at students and novice researchers, often barely mention writing beyond it being mere technical exercise. In discussing research, these texts deny both the intensely political aspect of educational research and the interwoven nature of theory, philosophy, practices and material realities (Kuhn 1970; Schostak 2002; Punch 2005). The failure to acknowledge and engage with
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