"This book is explosive! Taking failed writing experiments as their own invitation to thought, Jonathan Eburne explodes writing (and the written) to pieces. Pulling those pieces close, he reveals the riot of accidents, promiscuities, and infelicities that make writing as possible as it is impossible. What a weird and welcome journey."—Perry Zurn, author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry

"Following intricate nodes of curiosity—from insect galls to CPAP machines, from desire, death, and drugs to bookstores—Exploded Views re-members, works through, and renders palpable the messy and contradictory process of scholarly–creative labor. This book is a funny, smart, and incisive invitation to change our shapes within and without the academy, with care and vulnerability at the heart of every laboring gesture."—Natalie Loveless, author of How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation