Suspended Animation

Abstract

What possibilities for thinking and expression lie suspended between what we say is a "something" or a "someone" and the forces, multiplicities, intensities, and uncanny relations that effect and constitute its naming-its sedimentation as such? How do we engage in analysis practices that help hold open identitarian thought's press so that we might learn from the embodied register of previously un-thought forces and creative rhythms; the material-discursive passageways of a life becoming a life? In this essay, the author introduces somatographic analysis as a practice of deeply attuning and attending via poesis, or creativity, to material-discursive data and the subjective emergences they enact. Following a description of somatographic analyses' practical features and aims, a Working-Class Academic Zombie as figuration gets assembled. This figuration functions as both an illustration of somatographic analysis practices irrupting in the fold of inquiry and an alternative material-theoretical tool marking the limits of classificatory systems for understanding first-generation college students and their paths to becoming women academics.

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