Sarah Klein

Big surprise that the shape-of-research predictor works good at telling people how to make research the right shape

A principal aim of my newest paper is to find and cultivate solidarity between fields with diverse epistemic histories, instruments, and frameworks. I attempt to do so by locating methodological (experiential, processual) parallels between practices of experimental theater and formal modeling.

These are questions explored in the article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/1001... and echoed in the intro and other pieces in this special issue of Configurations in which the article appears: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57641, on the theme of Improvisation as Method in Art, Science and Technology Studies

A principal aim of my newest paper is to find and cultivate solidarity between fields with diverse epistemic histories, instruments, and frameworks. I attempt to do so by locating methodological (experiential, processual) parallels between practices of experimental theater and formal modeling.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

Who would want to compete that way against the glossy output confabulator? Especially if they don't feel confident, or they don't recognize writing (writing-as-sitting-in-front-of-a-keyboard) as a practice where their thinking happens?

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

I agree with my colleagues that insofar as writing expresses thinking, it cannot be automated. And I agree also that doing the process of writing oneself cannot be avoided if one wants to express one's thinking through writing.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

We can look to the arts for some examples. I teach courses where we practice using theater as a way to think. But we can also look to craft, to everyday techniques, to activities and outputs of what are labeled skilled and unskilled labor.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

If we want to help people find, cultivate, and reclaim intrinsic pleasure and power in thinking, it is helpful (and less elitist) to recognize how thinking is materialized through, with, and across many activities, practices and media.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

This logocentrism is the reason why we learn to write, and why many of us are in the business of teaching writing. I still want students to learn to write! I even think it's good to struggle to write.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.

But writing is not the only activity through which thinking happens, nor is it the only medium that can convey thinking. What writing is, inarguably, the most valued form through which thinking is expressed and authorized.

"Writing is thinking" is an imperfect slogan, like all slogans. I walked the dog, and thought about it, and as we rounded the corner home, felt ready - I recognized the impulse to write out what I think the slogan means and what it misses.