They radically undermine call into question our most commonly and deeply held assumptions about the very nature of intellectual endeavor, yet seem to content to pratter off in endless prose ornamented with standard academic niceties adopting the same didactic tone as the white rational male meta-narrative they so emphatically refute. But not a healthy contradiction, a contradiction that is gleefully aware of itself revels in itself and flaunts itself to those who would require safe consistency this is a contradiction that challenges those who would be its masters for it speaks of neglect of oversight of critical lack of self-awareness of disappointing conventionality in those whose work conveys radical potential. A useful heuristic device, perhaps. Now this will require a reconceptualization of poetry, for poetry has traditionally resided in the realm of lyricism emotion spirituality imagination. It has been everything antithetical to academic prose at cross-purposes to the very nature of intellectual inquiry mystical unity punctilious detail suggestion description subjective objective imaginative concrete to be interpreted to be transparent an end in itself a means to an end you can debate the divisions but that is not the point the point is a breakdown of the divisions a reconceptualization that makes poetry suitable for intellectual discourse indeed creates a new paradigm for intellectual discourse in which the poetic is the intellectual made honest for too much has changed for academic writing to continue in its current form there needs to be a breakdown of the boundaries between art and theory theory can no longer hold itself above or beyond or apart for it can no longer claim any closer approximation of truth through its methods.
Open space leaves more room for the mind.
To play to seek to weigh explore rather than just trying to filter through all the crap. This paper will be shorter than those of my peers but I hope it will say as much or more.