Infinite Text Collective

A teaching and consulting space to support critical-creative writing. We think theory is for everyone + creative writing is its own rigorous form of knowledge

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We had so much fun talking with Lou Cornum about sci-fi as theory and what happens when you think about Indigeneity on the moon. Crafting Theory #4 https://t.co/q9dwTovbof

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Gearing up for our Aug workshop on Youth, where we'll ask how to bring criticality, creativity, and care to the task of writing about past selves (with help from bell hooks, @huahsu, and Kathleen Stewart)

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From our recent workshop, writing to tune in to the "riddles and tones" of public secrets, those topics that are less secret than caught in tension between reckoning and repression. Inspiration Michael Taussig

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"When we talk about literature in translation, we're not necessarily talking about literature that has been written in another language and then translated": Poupeh Missaghi on the displacements and interpretive work of writing in diaspora https://t.co/q9dwTovbof

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"I want you to think about how these theories can help you think about your own lives better": Poupeh Missaghi on teaching theory in the 3rd installment of our Crafting Theory series https://t.co/q9dwTovbof

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Coming this Saturday: a workshop to practice writing about public secrets, the mode of discourse that simultaneously reveals and conceals

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Writing in search of the "invisible intensities" of old photos, keepsake, pieces of writing. Inspiration Julia Kristeva, from our recent Literary Montage workshop...

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Another prompt from our recent Literary Montage workshop: Writing with Dionne Brand's An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Writing

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From last weekend's Literary Montage workshop, a prompt about the collections that give our writing shape. Thinking with Walter Benjamin...

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For our 2nd Crafting Theory session, we talked to @JETVGC, author of Sink. So many great insights! On writing desire, expanding who gets counted as a Black public intellectual, studying language beyond narrow etymologies, and more https://t.co/q9dwTovbof

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In just over a week we'll be convening for a Literary Montage workshop to think about montage-y/collage-y projects + the way all writing is in some ways about collecting. Details here: https://t.co/wLlV65oGVl

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So excited to release this interview with @raquefella, author of Brown Neon, in our 1st installment of Crafting Theory, where we talk to authors we admire about what theory means to them. Click thru to hear Raquel speak on concepts of terrain and more! https://t.co/q9dwTovbof

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Happy Equinox with a prompt from our recent Beginnings workshop: How to start a project by imagining the person you need to be to write it. Inspiration from Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System

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From our recent Beginnings workshop: starting(/restarting) a writing project by writing via list, with help from Gabrielle Civil's The Déjà Vu

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From our recent Beginnings workshop: Starting a project by asking what it means to start

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We're launching an interview series called Crafting Theory, where we'll talk to writers we admire about what theory means to them. We've got some wonderful guests lined up, but it only felt right to ask the questions of ourselves first!
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From our recent Laughter & Jokes workshop, a prompt for writing alongside @walterspot's "In Search of the Face," which conjures a kind of stand-up routine for exploring the unfunny, discordant, & dream-like ways structural forces infuse the everyday

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From our recent Laughter & Jokes writing workshop, a prompt: Thinking with @SaraNAhmed's "A Killjoy Manifesto"

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Writing prompt from our recent Laughter & Jokes workshop: On corpsing, the act of erupting in laughter when you're not supposed to, the body's resistance to scripts it doesn't want to enact. Inspired by a passage from @FrthPrsnSnglr

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Excited for our February writing workshop: on laughter as lens for political and personal insight, on laughter as theory and craft. We'll write with excerpts from @FrthPrsnSnglr, @SaraNAhmed, & others...