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The final chapter, a conclusion of sorts, coming after three honest chapters and two detours, sums up the argument about what ABERists could be doing, looking at one last example, this time within academia: the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard University. With such films as 2012’s Leviathan, the SEL has established itself as the ultimate ABERists.
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Yes, this is the very same New Bedford from where Ishmael embarked on his journey in Moby Dick (Melville, 2017). He had a slight obsession with disparaging the place. “New Bedford beats all Water Street and Wapping,” says Ishmael. “In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.” He calls it “a queer place” where “fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.”
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Dean Young: “I wasn’t put on this planet to explain myself” (2010, p. 30).
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The poet Russell Edson (1975) says nothing is more terrible than a self-serious poet “whose poems are gradually decaying into sermons of righteous anger; no longer able to tell the difference between the external abstraction and the inner desperation; the inner life is no longer lived or explored, but converted into public anger… Beware of serious people, for their reality is flat; and they have come to think of themselves as merely flat paste-ons. Their rage at the flatness of their lives knows no end; and they keep all their little imitators scared to death…. And they are meddlers, they try to create others in their own image because theirs is failing” (p. 39).
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Morrow, S.M. (2021). Customary Conclusion. In: Rethinking Art Education Research through the Essay. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81269-0_7
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