“I just need to talk to Mr and Mrs Ingrams,” Daniel told them, oblivious to the fact that Val would be writhing in embarrassment if she overheard his misreading of her connection to Graham.
Thank you for responding so thoughtfully to my question and for sharing about your relationship with your editor. I find it striking that the editorial relationship turns out to embody many of the very themes that sit at the heart of the blog: mother-child connection, embodied knowing, trust, dependency, validation and the generation of knowledge through relationship.
What stands out for me is the way the figure of the editor has been positioned within the blog over time. As I remember it, the presence of an editor was introduced in a post more than a year ago in response to concerns about monetising the blog through selling book copies, in the context of explaining the "hidden costs" involved in producing the work.
I am left interested in the contrast between what was initially foregrounded and what remained in the background. The editor was introduced as a cost of production long before they were introduced as part of the relational context from which the work itself emerges.
Given that the blog is, in many ways, an argument for taking relational and maternal ways of knowing seriously, I find myself wondering about that choice of emphasis and what it might tell us about how authority, value and legitimacy are communicated.
Thank you Alex. Yet again a really helpful comment that will be addressed in the post that will come out on 1st July. Here, suffice it to say that the draft of that post currently ends with a quote from T.S.Eliot's Little Gidding; “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
I am always fascinated at how, in extracting myself from the sticky, deep toolbox of the Master and the manstream, I do go around in circles slowly stripping away layer upon layer of 'stuff' that impacts, confounds and illuminates how we might operationalise our m/other tongue in a world that speaks predominantly another language. Fascinating stuff!
Thank you for responding so thoughtfully to my question and for sharing about your relationship with your editor. I find it striking that the editorial relationship turns out to embody many of the very themes that sit at the heart of the blog: mother-child connection, embodied knowing, trust, dependency, validation and the generation of knowledge through relationship.
What stands out for me is the way the figure of the editor has been positioned within the blog over time. As I remember it, the presence of an editor was introduced in a post more than a year ago in response to concerns about monetising the blog through selling book copies, in the context of explaining the "hidden costs" involved in producing the work.
I am left interested in the contrast between what was initially foregrounded and what remained in the background. The editor was introduced as a cost of production long before they were introduced as part of the relational context from which the work itself emerges.
Given that the blog is, in many ways, an argument for taking relational and maternal ways of knowing seriously, I find myself wondering about that choice of emphasis and what it might tell us about how authority, value and legitimacy are communicated.
Thank you Alex. Yet again a really helpful comment that will be addressed in the post that will come out on 1st July. Here, suffice it to say that the draft of that post currently ends with a quote from T.S.Eliot's Little Gidding; “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
I am always fascinated at how, in extracting myself from the sticky, deep toolbox of the Master and the manstream, I do go around in circles slowly stripping away layer upon layer of 'stuff' that impacts, confounds and illuminates how we might operationalise our m/other tongue in a world that speaks predominantly another language. Fascinating stuff!