WRITING, EROS AND EXCESS

RESISTING CAPITALIST LOGICS OF PRODUCTION IN WRITING PRACTICE

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/ngyn6197

Keywords:

Writing, Desire, Excess, Economy, Carson, Klossowski

Abstract

This paper takes up the writing of Pierre Klossowski, and notions of eros, to consider how writing practices are shaped by, and work to resist capitalist logics of production. Discussing Agnes Varda’s, The Gleaners, this paper argue that creative “products” can be read, reframed and celebrated as a kind of excess which emerges through playfulness. This manoeuvre of valuing excess enables this writer to re-engage with the making process as an act of play which positions desire rather than productivity as the impetus for writing. It concludes with a discussion about how positioning desire in such a way may be useful when experiencing blockages or obstacles which emerge as a result of the tension between creativity and logics of production.

Author Biography

  • Hayley Elliott-Ryan, Deakin University

    Hayley Elliott-Ryan is a writer of fiction, poetry and performance works. She recently completed a PhD at Deakin University in the area of narrative impasse, political ontologies and theories of bricolage, as well as on broader questions of waste, excess, currency, and interventionist narratological methods. She is the founder of the Deakin magazine Wordly, which is now in its eighth year of regular publication, as the central in-house outlet for emerging Deakin writers. She has been shortlisted for the Right Now poetry prize and the Judith Rodriguez Prize.

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Published

14-04-2023

Issue

No. 4 (2023)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

WRITING, EROS AND EXCESS: RESISTING CAPITALIST LOGICS OF PRODUCTION IN WRITING PRACTICE. (2023). C I N D E R. https://doi.org/10.21153/ngyn6197