Work

Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historicalarticulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspective. The new materialist project comprises looking for the immanence of language via three realms: its relation, its theorization, and its creation. Therefore, moving away from representationalist practices demands a definition of language as animate, sensory material requiring creative labour for its realisation. The article provides an example of this materialization of language, via the concept of bodywording.

Source: Matter Journal of New Materialist Research

DOI: 10.1344/jnmr.v1i1.29299

Authors: Helen Palmer, Beatriz Revelles-Benavente

Institutions: Kingston University London, Universidad de Granada

Language: English

Topic: Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3042711095

FWCI: 1.469

Cites: 1

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10