Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Algebra of Need

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink September 26th, 2009

 

 
“The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control.
In the words of total need: ‘Wouldn’t you?‘ Yes you would” (201).

– Burroughs, “Testimony Concerning a Sickness” (1960)

 
 
M 28-Sep      Burroughs: Naked Lunch
                       (“Deposition” pp. 199-205; “And Start West” to “Ordinary Men & Women” pp. 3-101)
                       (James Jacob & Phil Cafaro)

 
                      ”Burroughs’ Cut-up Method”

 
 
W 30-Sep      Naked Lunch (“Islam Inc” through “The Examination” pp. 101-65)        (Anna Bernstein)

 
 
F 02-Oct      Naked Lunch (”…Pantopon Rose?” through end, pp. 165-96; plus “Post Script” pp. 207-10)
                      (Eric Roe & Paige Miller)

 
 

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Beautiful Shadow

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink September 19th, 2009

 

 
“By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me.
I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet.”

– Plath, “The Hanging Man” (1960)

At work in novels is “a new logic, definitely a logic, but one that grasps the innermost depths of life and death without leading us back to reason. The novelist has the eye of a prophet, not the gaze of a psychologist” (82).

– Deleuze, “Bartleby, or the Formula” (1989)

 
M 21-Sep      Plath: The Bell Jar     (through Chp. 9)           (Sarah Zimmerman)

 
                      ”Plath’s Life and Career” (Illinois)

 
 
W 23-Sep      The Bell Jar     (Chp. 10-14)           (Krystal Sardinas)

                       plus poems (optional / select) — see below.      cf. List: all poems (Stanford)

 
 
F 25-Sep      The Bell Jar     (Chp. 15-20)           (Jessica Brousseau)

                       plus (required):
                       “Ariel” (1962); “Daddy” (1962); & “Lady Lazarus” (1962)

 
                       Due: Response 2 — Prompt

 
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