Writing Sensation: Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry, illuminates the creative-relational as a poietic and transversal concept of an inquiry capable of attending to the way events throw themselves together, and how forms take shape in the interplay of difference.
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 wouldnt 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 experiencinlS