The aesthetics of collective writing: A Chinese/Western collective essay

izvorni znanstveni rad

izvorni znanstveni rad

The aesthetics of collective writing: A Chinese/Western collective essay

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Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2022
Časopis Educational philosophy and theory
Volumen 55
Svesčić 8
Stranice str. 888-896
DOI 10.1080/00131857.2022.2094765
ISSN 0013-1857
EISSN 1469-5812
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Sažetak

The ancient concept of ‘self-cultivation’ with its roots in Confucianism and Hellenistic philosophy can also be utilised as tool for understanding the practices of collective writing and open review as part of a ‘knowledge socialism’. ‘Self-cultivation’ understood in terms of writing as a combination of ascetic and technological practices have ethical and aesthetic power to reconstitute the academic author, writer and scholar. Increasingly, academic writing is controlled through new digital writing technologies (NDWT) configuring a new ‘techno-aesthetics’: as a ‘technology of the self’ academic writing is governed by new rules and relations of power of new digital technologies and digital text production (hypertext, computer-aided writing, grammar and spell check, search engines, copy-paste-edit, plagiarism detection, etc). Collective writing can be understood as a new model of text production that generates new ethical, legal and pedagogical issues around the notions of ‘author’, ‘journal article’ and ‘intellectual property’. The techno-aesthetics of collective writing are ‘moral technologies’: both the academic author and its ‘genres’ have passed through various stages and styles connecting self-cultivation and the contingent development of academic writing. The style of ‘objective’ analysis where research and report writing developed a scientific form of writing in the third person masks questions of power concerning both the author and the subject. Here are the major steps in this argument: 1. moral education as self-cultivation; 2. self-writing in the Ancients (Foucault) as part of the ‘arts of the self’; [3. the technological enframing of the academy and the development of techno-science]; 4. the emergence of academic writing, genres and the development of the global journal systems; 5. collective academic writing (CAW). 6. collective writing as a resistance to the mass produced article - multiple authors, encouragement of collective

Ključne riječi

collective writing; aesthetics