From ‘The pump’ to ‘Senescence’: Two musical acts of more-than-representational ‘acting into’ and ‘building new’ life

This chapter describes collaboration between a health geographer and musician, which involved making pop music in academic contexts. The challenges that emerged fall broadly under two themes. First, there was the challenge of doing non-representational theory itself. Of overcoming the academic urge to ‘dig down’ and theorize phenomena, and instead engage with public life more lightly and directly. Also of not employing ‘safe’ tried and tested …