We haven't heard much from Richard Hall recently, but this is as poignant as anything he has written. "For whom do we write as the world burns?" he asks. For as we write in environments where "subjects and institutions discipline us epistemologically, ontologically and methodologically to perform in particular ways, we might ask whether our being, doing, knowing and writing are simply reproducing, in and through the text, a collective life that is becoming more efficiently unsustainable." It's a question I wrestle with myself a lot. Like anyone else working in an institution, I am expected to present certain types of work, in certain ways. These are expectations I have mostly resisted, but how successfully? And what are the long-term costs of such expectations, depending as they do on unsustainable models of society, commerce and governance?
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