“Truth depends on an encounter with something
that forces us to think and to seek the truth.” (14)
“if the resonance has both objective and subjective conditions,
what it produces is of an altogether different nature:
the Essence, the spiritual Equivalent….that breaks with the subjective chain.” (154)
— Deleuze, Proust and Signs (1972)
M 30-Nov Foer: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (through p. 173)
(Laura Hampson & Tahara Franklin)
W 02-Dec Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pp. 174-259)
(Krystal Sardinas & Paige Miller)
Due: Project Proposal Update (revised/finalized; 7pm, on blog)
(counts as blog entry; add Foer to your “poetics inventory”)
→ Notes from class discussion (plus reminders and clarifications)
F 04-Dec Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pp. 267-326) (Sarah Zimmerman)
plus: (required): “Mystory” excerpts by Ulmer (PDF)
M 07-Dec Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint / partial)
CATTt |
Posted by Gary Hink
November 25th, 2009
“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
more like music than like concepts.” (91)
— Ulmer, Heuretics
“For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear. ”
— Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Final Project: “Resonance Assemblage”
Informal Proposal — due Friday 27-Nov
— (contact me if you need to post on Saturday, as I am replying in queue)
suggested reading: “Mystory” excerpts by Ulmer (PDF)
Review Experiment, especially CATTt
(and notes from 09 & 23 Nov classes;
have you updated your “Analogy” category inventory?)
Read the rest of this entry »
“Spinoza’s ethics has nothing to do with a morality; he conceives it as an ethology, that is, as a composition of fast and slow speeds, of capacities for affecting and being affected on this plane of [Nature]” (125).
–”you do not know beforehand what good or bad you are capable of…what a body or a mind can do, in a given encounter, a given arrangement, a given combination (125).
–Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
M 02-Nov Ceremony (through p.186 ) (Jessica Brousseau & Phil Cafaro)
W 04-Nov Ceremony (through end) (Eric Roe & Jake Jacob)
F 06-Nov No class (away at conference)
Due: Blog entry (Friday this week)
Read the rest of this entry »
