This time to offer a selection of essays across PARSE Journal’s ten-year output. As part of marking this achievement, I was invited to select articles/contributions to be highlighted on the website and via social media. It was, indeed, worth looking back over eighteen issues, sixteen of which I’d worked on as a copy-editor (with another nearly finished) and to reflect on what (still) resonates and why. I’ve ended up choosing a wide range that do, however, have some connections for me, as the blurb highlights.
‘These essays all somehow reflect on or speak to assumptions and traditions – of
behaviour, of positioning, of methods and articulations within various fields of
practice. They highlight that practice is a collective endeavour, no matter how hard
the conventions of a field seemingly push its practitioners towards specific ways of
working and making individual claims – of authorship, of knowledge. Collectively they
offer a gentle urge to greater generosity and nuance.’
All essays can easily be found on the website.
Gerrie van Noord 