Deleuzian Thought and Collaborative Writing: A Play in Four Acts

Abstract

This article involves four writers exploring together the insights into collaborative writing that Deleuze can offer. Jonathan and Ken in the United Kingdom and Bronwyn and Sue in Australia have separate histories of collaborative writing, and in this collaborative project, they extend their thinking about Deleuze and work reflexively with his concepts to examine their own four-way collaboration. The thoughts of Deleuze provide a means of looking at collaborative writing as performance, as a means of becoming, each for the unknown other; selves as writers and academics but also sexed subjects living complex lives, in this case in worlds many miles apart. The article offers the collective and multiple senses of how the thoughts of Deleuze can be brought to life in collaborative writing.

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Deleuze collaborative writing listening in-between flows haecceity

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