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The University in Crumbs - A Register of Things Seen and Heard (Hardcover)
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The University in Crumbs - A Register of Things Seen and Heard (Hardcover)
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Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and
imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of
Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the
everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series of
five first-person reports, Robert Porter, Kerry-Ann Porter and Iain
Mackenzie provide the reader with a number of stories that attempt
to capture some of their everyday experiences of academic life in
the UK, roughly between 2017 and 2022. Self-consciously written in
a subjective and conversational register, and often in dialogical
form, The University in Crumbs is an accessible series of
interrelated narratives that allow us to develop a concrete sense
of the grain, texture and feel for what it might be like to work in
the academy at a specific point in time. These stories,
first-person reports, dialogues, come alive, acquire their meaning,
force and pragmatic effect by way of a rather unique circumlocutory
form. There is a directedness to the everyday talk engaged in by
Robert, Kerry-Ann and Iain that nonetheless, simultaneously,
indirectly loops in and out of a kind of technical academic talk
that provides the book its light and shade. University in Crumbs is
an experimental work that implicitly and explicitly animates
philosophy, social, cultural and political theory through
first-person experiences and, in so doing, breathes new life into
what can often otherwise remain rather conventional and technical
academic language-games. More than that, this book dramatizes ideas
and concepts in ways perhaps less burdened by the weight of
canonical tradition, and encourages those readers with the talent
to portray their social world differently to be more licentious and
less bashful in putting such talents to work.
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