Writing Sensation Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry

№ 14. Slantwise: Departures (part one)  № 22. Sprouting Deviant: A Deviating Abstract[ion]  № 23. A Brief Note on Format/ion  № 11. Experi[e]ments (Feelings Force)  № 4. Infr[A]ctions (or What Things Do When They Shape Each Other)  № 19. Strange Intimacies  № 3. Three Folds  № 8. Surfaces (or the Comfort of a Lightning Strike)  № 18. Monstrum (or the Symmetry, and Harmony of all the Parts of the Body, of a Regular Proportion)  № 20. Zed, as in Zig-Zag: Departures (part two)

Biography

Andrew Mark Gillott is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport at The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, and Visiting Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, England, UK. He is particularly interested in collaborative, transdisciplinary, and postfoundational modes of inquiry that offer ways of probing a sense of what is happening as it makes itself felt.

“A thought experiment both dazzling and dizzying.”
Lisa A. Mazzei, Alumni Faculty Professor of Education, University of Oregon, USA

“Writing Sensation is not a book you have encountered before, which I mean as heartfelt praise: it is fresh, energetic, provocative. It surprises, entertains, stimulates, transports. You open it – somewhere: for me it was at its notional beginning but there are other ways in too – and you find yourself enveloped. Captivated. Captive, even. I wouldn’t want it any other way. This is a rare text, one you do not want to leave or let go of. Its theoretical scope and depth are extraordinary. Its lyrical, poetic moments elicit joy. Its textual playfulness is a delight, the fluency of the writing enviable. Andrew Gillott has achieved, and given to us, something special here.”
Jonathan G. Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh, UK

“For those who are drawn by the adventurings and ensuing  excitements of working in, with and around the more than simply human proclivities, eruptions and encountering of post foundational, speculative and expressive inquiry, Andrew M. Gillott's wonderful book, Writing Sensation, offers a lively, challenging and hugely erudite inducement to potential readers not to hesitate or tentatively test the waters of creative, relational inquiry but, instead, to animate bodyings that hurls thought and feeling into the deep end of immediating, immersive, and immanent doings of experiencing. Engaging fluently and in critically affirmative ways with the work of Deleuze, Guattari, Massumi, Manning, and many others, the richness of its text insists that this a book that needs to be carried, often dipped into and always spontaneously read. Following the energy of its (non)methodological impulses, this is a book that welcomes, then promotes (in)attentions, (in)decipherabilities, (un)intelligibilities and approaches to inquiry that are attuned to the subtleties of nuanced atmospheric change, sensitive to the barely perceptible presencings of affect and responsive to the exciting possibilities of the always not yet known. It is a book that reaches out to be read, not simply with the eyes; reading Writing Sensation will energise clarities, insights and an irresistible forcefulness to vision.”
Ken Gale, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth, UK

“Writing Sensation: Sense, Events and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry is SENSATION - AL!  Reading this book is time spent dwelling in vivid sensations, strange and intimate events, and bleeding encounters. This is a reading-feeling-thinking-writing  that lives, breathes, moves and plays. It must be read like a swimmer on the move. It must be read slantwise. It must be read for the unthinkable thoughts that it event-ually makes happen.  And because the writing is beautiful.”
Fiona A. Murray, Senior Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh, UK

“A truly experimental text, in-forming and delighting, while making the reader work attentively through dizzying zig-zagging tra[ns]versals.”
Vivienne Bozalek, Emerita Professor Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Honorary Professor Centre for Higher Education Research Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University, South Africa