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Bissell reflects on a short car journey that he undertook with his father from his home to the coast a few evenings each week for many years when he was a teenager. Inspired by non-representational theories, the chapter considers automobility as a space of singular happenings and felt intensities with the aim of making the car perhaps a little stranger by exploring its unsung capacities, and to acknowledge its role in writing the richness of the world. It experiments with the force of remembered description, performing a series of lines that fold the materialities of Norfolk with the durations of love, longing and loss.
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Bissell, D. (2019). On Edge: Writing Non-Representational Journeys. In: Boyd, C.P., Edwardes, C. (eds) Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5749-7_23
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