Text as Material 1: The Indisciplinary Essay

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Text as Material 1: The Indisciplinary Essay - Panel Discussion

Date: Friday, 4^th November, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 5.30- 7 P.M


"The bestowal  of the  garland  "writer" still suffices to  exclude from academia the person one is praising... Due to a fear of negativity per se, the subject's effort to break through what masks itself as objectivity is branded  as idleness. Everything is supposedly much  simpler...  Technician  or  dreamer,  those are the alternatives."

--Theodore Adorno, The Essay as Form

This thing that its enemies sometimes call "academic writing": what is it, where did it come from?  What formal and imaginative resources does it draw on? How does it shift in different national and local contexts?  How do audiences and publics form for it, and how do the different venues in which scholars write inform and change it?

This will be one of the themes explored in multiple sessions of Text as Material.  In the first of these, Nivedita Menon, Kaushik Ghosh, Ravi Sundaram and Shahid Amin will start the conversation.

All are welcome.

 

 

 

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