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ci-scholarly-positioning
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Use to situate a Critical Inquiry (CI) essay within the conversations it enters across the arts and humanities. CI is interdisciplinary, so positioning means naming the critical and theoretical debates the essay joins — across literature, art, film, philosophy, politics, history — and the precise place where it intervenes, not a discipline-internal literature review. Frames the stakes; it does not write the prose.
When to use
- Defining whose conversation the essay is entering
- Identifying the specific debate or concept under dispute
- Locating the exact point where the intervention bites
- Deciding which interdisciplinary debates to foreground
- Engaging a specific prior CI piece precisely
- Mapping the standing view, pressure point, move, and payoff
- Judging whether the manuscript answers the venue's real reader
- Returning a claim-evidence-risk ledger
When not to use
- Writing the prose
- Conducting a social-science literature review
- Performing a dutiful survey
- Listing names without staging a real disagreement
- Strawmanning the view being overturned
- Borrowing breadth by citing fields the argument never touches
- Treating theorists as ornaments rather than positions to argue with
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