Conceptual Autoethnography: Every Third Linefrom Work Emails I Sent in 2021
Conceptual Autoethnography: Every Third Linefrom Work Emails I Sent in 2021

Summary/Abstract: Here I present conceptual writing as/within autoethnography. As a conceptual writing project, I took the third line of every email I sent from my work account in 2021 (January 1 to December 31) and present each as a single, stand-alone line. As autoethnography, the work reaffirms Raymond Williams’ idea that individuals live in eras that each have a ‘structure of feeling.’ These decontextualised statements, questions, signature lines and auto-generated advertisements cumulatively help reframe my everyday written communication, lived experience, professional self and quotidian bureaucratic life as indicators of emergent culture in an unusual year.

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