Academic writing otherwise: possibilities and praxis

This article opens a space of possibility for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise. Based on a series of activity-activations we explore what academic writing might become when loosed from conventional prescriptions to explain, exemplify, demonstrate, justify, argue and account for. What happens if we decide to write otherwise? How can we enable writing’s perturbations to proliferate? How can writing otherwise be a mode of political praxis to imagine and co-compose collectivities? How can it be an ethical response to contest the authority, power and rigidity of traditional modes of writing? Written in a mode of post-authorship (Benozzo et al., 2016; Taylor & Benozzo, 2023), this article offers creative (Fairchild et al., 2022, 2024) and experimental writing practices for Academic Writing Otherwise to write productively against (while recognizing that we are caught within) the performative prescriptions and normative rules of the academic-writing-machine (Henderson et al., 2016).