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makes some strong arguments about the need for what she calls "researchcreation, " I'm having trouble getting on board with all the psychoanalytic theorizing she's doing, but her ideas about how and why researchcreation are important make senseand not only at the end of the world.
DNFd.

Like Loveless' ideas, don't like the writing, No sentence needs to be overwords long, Ever. There's no reason for it, Especially in a book arguing academia has too many gatekeepers and isn't accessible, Like, gee, ya think

Maybe I'll pick it up again later, but right now I don't have the patience to deal withword sentences.
Did make for some good "what the hell, this is why I hate academia" text messages to friends though, "This sentence iswords long, A pair of em dashes, six sets of parentheses, one italicized phrase, four commas, " This book is an incredible, thoughtful push through a lot of theory, I say push because Loveless is incredibly eager to send us through her collection and collage of theory that she has been working with for quite some time to try to make the creation of art and the teaching of art within the container of the contemporary university make sense.
I think she's done an admirable job, and I can understand why I feel pushed and pulled a bit not threateningly but in the presence of someone very excited.


The book is a proposal of sorts to consider the production and theory of art in the contemporary university "researchcreation," a term Loveless explains best in the last chapter of the book where she also finally addresses the anthropocenic overtones of the How to Make Art at the End of the World's title.
This term is meant, I think, to have a very specific use to make sense of a department that grants degrees both for the production of art and the production of theses about art.
Instead of drawing a line here, or claiming one is more authentic, Loveless argues that both are art, and offers a way to theorize the production of all scholarly output as something well beyond a traditional model of a paper or performance.


I believe the book is applicable to anyone who teaches upper level courses in the university as it's a wonderful refreshing view by someone very excited to be applying theory to their classes in a productive way.
By the end, I was convinced that researchcreation should provide pedagogical and scholarly benefit to any academic program or unit at the university, It really opens up one's perspective as to what can still be accomplished here even when all one hears about is neoliberal student marketdriven demands for particular courses.


The book is a fast, smart read that gets you thinking about familiar writers in new ways, The only part of the book I thought I might disagree with was her reading of Lacan, but this by no means is meant to indicate her read is weak, wrong, or missing something.
I wish she had spent more time developing the argument there, but it does not subtract from the overall impact and interest in the argument for researchcreation as a whole.


I highly suggest this book even though we don't get to the promise of the title to the end, but this last chapter is really excellent after you have read her workup to it or have been pulled along through a lot of complicated theory by a very excited and committed guide.
For me, any type of valid argument is overshadowed by Lovelesss tone and writing, She comes off condescending and I dont find her ideas to be easily implementable, Fantastic Parts of this work largely the intro amp conclusion are very focused on the project of getting The University to recognize certain sorts of work within the bounds of the institutions logics and structures.
As someone working amp thinking outside of those institutions those parts didn't particularly interest me, but I still found much here that was interesting, useful, and premissiongiving for thinkers and artmakers working outside of those institutions.
For instance, the discussion of ethics and approaches to the HOW of artmaking is relevant to any artist, and Loveless well articulates the value of stepping outside of rigid boundaries of a Discipline or Genre to discover what wisdom lies there.


Thank you for this book! In recent years, the rise of researchcreationa scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own righthas emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles.
In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectivesfrom feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate studentsto argue for researchcreation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university.
Championing

experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, researchcreation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social and ecological justice.
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