In event(s) Together, Differently: Writing Collaboratively in, of, and Beyond the University

In this paper, Helen and Mary share writings that emerged from a week in which the two found themselves, as Moten and Harney write, both in and of the university. Lured by the promise of a stolen space to explore what Manning refers to as the ‘fugitive elsewhere’ and ‘the conditions for new ways of encountering study’ with a scholar they had so longed to meet, somehow they are appointed the reluctant guardians of a hastily arranged doctoral conference, held in their visitor’s honour. Sooner and later, the writing wakes. They write as Deleuze describes with Guattari, ‘not ... together, [but] between the two ... never in the same rhythm, ... always out of step’. The writings divert on ‘lines of flight’ from the event/ful week and, excited by the layerings, a text begins to emerge ….