“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)
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Posted by Gary Hink
November 24th, 2009
Note: The following prompt is in addition to updating your “inventory” (required) with specific lessons and techniques from the novels, which is part of the project proposal; we’ll update one last time next week with Foer’s poetics.
For this week’s blog entry (due Friday),
exercise practicing a generative method and mode of thinking crucial for the final project,
following Monday’s creative writing entry: intuitive, inventive, and reflexive (personal).
“We should not be satisfied with either biography or bibliography;
we must reach a secret point where the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).
— Deleuze (via Ulmer; citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).
two prompts and examples below…
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“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)
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“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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