Site Plot Hole: writing outside-in 

6th Nov 2018 1:00pm-5:00pm 

What does it mean to write as object instead of writing about an object? Across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, there is an increasing interest in exploring the non-human processes that unfold beyond the reach of disciplinary convention and habitual modes of thinking. If ‘texts with narrative plots and wholesome structures are read and written according to disciplines and procedures conforming to their configurations’ (Negarestani, 2008: 62), then perhaps a hol(e)y writing can let us reconfigure our cognitive habits to the envelopments and entanglements that take no heed of our wholesome disciplinary structures.

In this symposium we want to understand the hybrid methods and strategies practitioners employ to write their site across poetry, architecture, art, and geography. In the first panel, geographers and artists will discuss how they combine both textual and extra-textual strategies in addressing their site, the place of writing in their practice, and how they conceptualise the site of their practice. In the second panel, we will hear how poetry, as a different kind of writing can inhabit these sites, and ultimately how poetic and critical languages can be harnessed to move beyond habitual modes of reading and writing.

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