The improvised reading practice above was made on 5 December 2024, as a 'testing' in advance of our performative presentation in Creatical Idiolects: Exploring Creative-Critical Synergies, a one-day online symposium hosted by Lancaster University.
The reading comprises a series of sections, intermingling the idiolect of our conversational transcript (specifically focused on the act of returning and of listening) with fragments of critical discourse (e.g. on dorsality [David Wills, 2008], on (dis)orientation [Sara Ahmed, 2006]; on inclination [Judith Butler reflecting on Adriana Cavarero's writing, 2016]), alongside playful moments of ‘etymological dérive’ for diving into, dwelling with and turning over specific key words (e.g. oblique, reverse).The reading activates a distinctive material-linguistic form emerging through unexpected conjunctions, (re)combinations, circling and looping of language, in the very moment of voicing creating a contingent unfolding of dorsal sense-making.