Writing alone together: making sense of lockdown through hundreds

Quinn, Katherine, Orlek, Jonathan and Cornish, Ben 2020. Writing alone together: making sense of lockdown through hundreds. [Online]. https://www.thesociologicalreview.com: Sociological Review Publication. Available at: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/writing-alon...

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Abstract

In late May, we established a tentative online writing project called The Hundreds. Adapting Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s project of the same name, our format has been to react to covid-lives in flash writing form – writing in 100-word multiples. Berlant and Stewart’s work flowed from their “Public Feelings Project”, where peers wrote on a “scene, thing, or situation” before reading the one hundred words aloud, and listening, “compositionally.” We have been meeting online, fortnightly, since June and sharing our work – on everyday encounters, conversations with theory, and daydreams – reading aloud to each other and sharing a live online document. Our website shows some of our examples here. Much of what we have written below has also been adapted from fragments of these Hundreds. Here, we want to dwell with the possibilities that [the method of?] hundred-ing presents to us, rather than the content of our experiments, but the examples on our website give a sense of the multifarious nature of our topics: the nature of zoom, writing that feels like kayaking, and a love affair with Milton Keynes are some spoilers.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Publisher:	Sociological Review Publication
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 March 2021
Date of Acceptance:	24 November 2020
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2021 17:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139958

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