New Perspectives on Academic Writing

Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

• Introduction: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die, Bernd Herzogenrath (University of Frankfurt, Germany)1. The Structure and System of Academic Writing, Levi R. Bryant (Collin College, USA)2. Walking on Sunshine, Jessie Beier & Jason Wallin (University of Alberta, Canada)3. Science Fictioning Devices, David Burrows (Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK) and Simon O’Sullivan (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)4. Mythoplasia and Fictioning in Academic Practice: “Writing, Other”, Liana Psarologaki (University of Suffolk, UK)5. [Fill in the Blank], Kalani Michell (University of California, USA)6. How can one be Farocki?, Rembert Hüser (University of Frankfurt, Germany)7. Step 2 Hearing: “The Parties Agree to Use Their Best Efforts”. A Dramatic Academic Work, Jennifer Hayashida (USA)8. Writing the Unwritable: Unraveling Worlds, Julie Vulcan (Australia)9. Writing In Between, Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University, Australia)10. Unwriting for the Anthropocene: Looking at the Disaster from the Inside…, David R. Cole (Western Sydney University, Australia)11. La Mise en Abyme: Placing “Academic Writing” in Scare Quotes, Mick Wilson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)12. Abstract Academic Expressionism: an Alternative Aesthetics, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK)13. Affective Academic Writing, Bernd Herzogenrath (University of Frankfurt, Germany)14. Write to Life, Erin Manning (Concordia University, Canada)Index

Can academic writing ‘unwrite itself’? Redirect itself toward infusing ‘the Academy’ with forms of writing that aim to disrupt its usual forms of critique and communicative accessibility? This collection introduces a welter of unfamiliar forces into the wording of thought, strategies that inspire to seed a 'bomb' of differences.