Feltness

“Reading this book feels like a gift, like a sustained glimpse of potentials for making a world otherwise. Its orientation, conceptual framework, and intellectual resources are utterly contemporary, cutting-edge, and forward facing. Every chapter glimmers with insights from the latest activist-inflected scholarship, and every moment has a lesson to teach. Feltness is a marvel from start to finish.” - Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Digital Communication and Cultural Studies, Millersville University

“Feltness champions approaches vital to all of us working in the university today, supporting our students and educating them, in bell hooks’s words, as ‘a practice of freedom.’ Informed by feminist, decolonial, queer, anti-speciesist, and artistic approaches, Stephanie Springgay argues for teaching and learning spaces that are creative, experiential, and committed to producing the conditions of possibility for genuine pedagogical collaboration and encounter. This book is a must-read for its contributions to debates in research-creation/artistic research, radical and critical pedagogy, and art-as-social-practice.” - Natalie Loveless, author of How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation

"Springgay’s Feltness is a guiding resource for educators looking to implement or justify research-creation with respect to the social justice that such radical pedagogy can either foster or simply perform. The book makes a compelling case for the benefits of research-creation, educating as an artist-teacher, and the need to keep both practices affective and socially engaged." - Laura Ryan, RACAR

"Springgay’s work invites us to strive to do better, push boundaries, and break free from traditional social and scientific constraints, as well as the egotistical academic imperative of showcasing research creations and seeking personal validation." - Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Capacious