M 07-Dec Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint)
- Workshop / “Studio” class
“Stage 1″ Checkpoint instructions here.
W 09-Dec (no class)
- Due: Final Project — (9pm finalized / online)
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“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)
“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?)
“The next story I wrote was The Crying of Lot 49,
which was marketed as a ‘novel,’ and in which I seem
to have forgotten most of what I thought I’d learned up until then.”
– Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, 1984.
| M 16-Nov Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (through Chapter 3) Pynchon Wiki: Annotations (Laura Navia & Audrey Bannon) |
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W 18-Nov Crying of Lot 49 (Chp. 4-5) (Anna Bernstein) |
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F 20-Nov Crying of Lot 49 (Chapter 6) plus Lot 49 Short Film (Maria Tamayo) |
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M 23-Nov Due: Response 6
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M 09-Nov read:
Gregory Ulmer, “The Learning Screen.” 4 pages. Networked. 2009.
and Franz Kafka’s parable, “Before the Law”
Orson Welles’ version: Watch/Listen (2:50)
W 11-Nov No classes—Veterans Day
Due: Response 5 — Prompt (deadline 11:59pm)
F 13-Nov EGO Conference: see schedule below.
Due: Blog Entry, “Inventory” about lessons thus far; see more below.
M 19-Oct Experiment–Part II
- from 07-Oct ( Greek etymologies)
- “catastrophe” = katastrephein
{kata “to overturn” + strephein “turn”; or strophe “a turning”}
- = “reversal of what is expected” (originally in drama)
Q. in what does a “turn” occur? (hint: EXP)
W 21-Oct Morrison: Jazz (through Chp 3, pp.4-87) (Erin Gallagher)
F 23-Oct Jazz (Chp. 4-5, pp.89-135) (Hillary Silvestri)
“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)
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)
