Project: Provocations
Selected proceedings from the Provocations Symposium hosted by the J.M Coetzee Centre at the University of Adelaide.
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Provocations
6:66am, narrow gate
In a time of no nexts, narrative is a problematic medium, but this is exactly why a number of contemporary writers have narrowed their focus to minutes and seconds. It’s high-frequency trading on cultural capital. What imaginative surpluses can literary language seize from financialised time?
Nov. 2021 •
• Provocations
The Crumbling Tower
I suppose my ambivalence about scholarship actually comes down to a fear that, not only will I spend my life in scholarly pursuits rather than living it, as if living were an uncomplicated thing one does instinctively and without thought, but that I will spend it, like the protagonist of John Banville’s The Sea, with myself unsaid.
Jun. 2020 •
The university • Provocations