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In considering becoming writer from an interspecies perspective I argue that doing something that it is commonly supposed that the animal usually does not do (writing), could be supported by exploring what that possibility would be like. What happens, for example, if I write lightly (a gazelle?) or become doggish in my approach, or perhaps become expansive and elephantine? What ‘animal becoming’ happens as I use fingers to make marks as a writer, researcher and academic? My interaction with a PhD student is highlighted as we enacted an affective methodology that extends to ‘becoming animal’ through writing. In a Deleuzian sense ‘becoming animal’ is always happening.
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Bone, J. (2013). Becoming Animal. In: Vicars, M., McKenna, T. (eds) Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-509-0_4
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