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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“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?)
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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A) “Emblem” (examples)
B) “Signature Theory” (example)
M 23-Nov Due: Response 6 — Part I (1:55pm) Creative Prompt
- — Part II: Analysis of Classmate’s Entry (due 11:59pm). Prompt
- Extra Credit (optional) Analytic Response — Prompt
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.
“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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