Common language: academics against networking and the poetics of precarity

Sarah Bernstein, Patricia Malone

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Abstract

Academics Against Networking (AAN, 2019–2020) was a zine compiled by Nell Osborne and Hilary White and circulated for the cost of postage. The zine's two issues comprise lyric essays, poetry, prose, Tweets, images, and combinations thereof that respond in some way to the provocation of the title. The contributions take a wide variety of formal approaches, but they share much in common: each writes against networking's instrumentalization of grammar, against its impoverished modes of thought, and against the debased sense of subjectivity and community the logic of such a grammar engenders. In this chapter, we read the vital contributions in AAN as articulating a poetics against and in spite of the market logics of the contemporary academy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLiterary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
EditorsMichiel Rys, Bart Philipsen
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
Pages129-143
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9783030881740
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jan 2022

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

Keywords

  • literature
  • culture
  • poetics

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