Introduction to Creativecritical selves: Interconnection, dialogue, entanglement, love

This article introduces the second of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now. Alongside an attempt to speak to the themes of this issue – the ways in which the creativecritical self is incorporated within networks of other selves – it offers the second part of a conversation between the two editors, Daniel Juckes and Stefanie Markidis, as they reflect upon the composition of the special issue. The transcription of this conversation, which was recorded through Microsoft Teams and then edited for clarity, begins in the introduction to the first special issue: “Creativecritical spaces: practice, pedagogy, methodology, the ineffable”.