AML 2410-8974 Fall 2009
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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I am interested in the intersection between poetry and history. How does history make its path in a poetic work?
We rarely see history in a literary text since it is so hard to deal with. Perhaps poetry does not know how to say or utter history. …History simply smothers and squashes.
Yet some books show that one can remain poetic in the very midst of history. (110)–Hélène Cixous, “Poetry, Passion, and History” (1985)
M 26-Oct Jazz (Chp. 6-10, pp.137-229) (Tahara Franklin)
W 28-Oct Silko: Ceremony (Intro + through p.37) (Laura Hampson)
F 30-Oct Ceremony (pp.38-85) (Maria Tamayo)
Due: Response 4 (deadline: 11:59pm)
