About this Event
Essaying: The Use of Obsession With Madison Pawle
inSITU: Workshop Series
If to ‘essay’ is to attempt – to understand via discourse, to tease out the folds of an idea, to give our thinking a shape in language – we might understand the essay as an appropriate formal container for our obsessions. In Touching Feeling, Eve Sedgwick writes that ‘obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital’. Obsession, when used critically, makes us rigorous, careful, curious.
This workshop stems from this provocation, considering how indulging our fixations might be a generative approach to essayistic writing.
Together we will explore texts that can be read as iterations of an obsessive mode. We’ll acquiesce to our own obsessions and experiment with writing into them. We’ll think about how the desire to know can lead us down surprising wormholes of thought.
2:00pm - 4:00pm Saturday 18th May
Darebin Intercultural Centre, 350 High Street, Preston, Victoria 3072
The City of Darebin acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which Darebin stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
This venue is fully wheelchair accessible, has all gender bathrooms, a prayer room and a low sensory space.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
350 High St, 350 High Street, Preston, Australia
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