The Writer as a Collector

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“It is at once again an honor and a challenge to be invited to deliver closing remarks to the 2019 edition of FIELD MEETING, given the task at hand is to review and relay the presentations and discussions that will unfold throughout the gathering. Throughout this symposium, I will perform, in real-time, the role of the reviewer, collecting the ideas that are expressed as discussions unfold and filter them into a text. My approach is to capture—as best I can—the differentthreads that emerge among participants, while responding in kind to my own position as a writer and editor; a role that represents its own form of ‘collecting’.”