The Learning Screen

 
 
M 29-Nov    »”The Learning Screen” (Ulmer 2009)

and    » Conclusion “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” (299-324)
        — A Consultation (postponed); analogy: “MEmorial“

 » Discuss:  WideImage (Emblem); “Heuretics” (method) & Apparatus Theory (update);
Aporia, ATH, Remake (disciplinary target) — Final Project
 

» Due: Emblem (draft) 7pm

Project 3 Part I — see textbook & links:
“Design an emblem that evokes the look and feel of your mystory.” (p. 246)

» Workshop (period E1): online (Sakai chat room)

W 01-Dec Studio:    Emblem (progress) & WideSite

“Design a website version of your image of wide scope (a ‘widesite’).” (p. 19)

Band 4   Online Discussion (before & after class) — see prompt below.
Rest of class, discuss Ulmer Entries & Relays:
    — Synecdoche, NY, Logorama, & online videos (selections)

F 03-Dec Studio:    Concept Remake (Assemblage Site)

Part II Using your emblem as a guide for decision (intuition), take responsibility for “re-inventing” or “updating” a topic from Career Field or a specific aspect of 20th-century culture: avoiding judgment & blindness (ATH) in favor of expressing the affect (lived dimension) of experience.

Band 1   Online Discussion (before & after class) — see prompt below.
Rest of class, discuss Ulmer Entries & Relays:
    — Synecdoche, NY, Logorama, & online videos (selections)

» Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
     (sketch / plans: Emblem → WideSite)

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» Due: “Fakebook” Update (21-Nov) — Inventory
• reminder: opportunity for extra credit (blog, discussion/comments, Exercise—respectively)

M 22-Nov      Discuss: Emblem (invention+discovery) — Final Project Part I

• Review: Chp. 9 & Chp. 10
  — especially Office sections (pp. 276/96) & Assignment (p. 246-7)
• » review: Ulmer’s pages about Emblem (all links)
   
• Relays (review / discuss): Synecdoche, New York & in the white darkness

  » Additional Media to view (this week): online short videos
   

 
W 24-Nov Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”) — Prompt

F 26-Nov No Class—Thanksgiving

• Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

» Suggested Reading: Ulmer (2009) “The Learning Screen” (required for M 29-Nov)
 

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“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 (citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).

» updated: links about Emblem (from Ulmer)

M 15-Nov Internet Invention Chp. 10: “The Ideal of Value” — online discussion (see below)

» View: Logorama (2009)

Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kaufman, 2008)

W 17-Nov Internet Invention Chp 10 & Synechdoche, New York (Relay)

F 19-Nov Mark Amerika: FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

Due: “Fakebook” Update (21-Nov) — Inventory

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M 08-Nov   Due: Project 2 Assignment — finalized online by 10pm

Part III Emblem toward Concept Remake

W 10-Nov Internet Invention Chp 9 (246-61): “Emblem” — Discuss: “WideScope”

 » key topics:  Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
“cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
— Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
“the irreparable” gap (Agamben); void; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
 
→ closely read: Assignment & all four Comment sub-sections.

F 12-Nov Internet Invention Chp 9 (262-77): “Emblem” & Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001)

 » key topics:  wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
— Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
 
→ closely read: Office & all four Comment sub-sections.

» Due: Weekly Blog Entry
        — Prompt: Exercise “Patterning” (p. 248); cf. Office #1 (p.276)

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“The point for electracy is not the music as such, or does not stop with the music. Rather, as our analogy shows, the electrate dimension is not the music but the mood it supports and evokes.” (Ulmer p. 220)

 
M 25-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 8 “The Bar (Street)”   Online Discussion (see below)

key topics:  Atmosphere; “Liminality,” bar / street, performance;
» Music genres & moods   {Blues, Jazz, “Funk synthesis (syncretism),” Samba, Tango}
» Inference, conduction, “choral word”; “interbody,” “liquid architecture” (cyberspace);
»Theorist — Agamben: whatever, spectacle / image; singularity, stanza, Irreparable
 
→ closely read: all “Comment” sub-sections & Office #2-5 (p.242)

Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)

W 27-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 8 “The Bar (Street)”

Due: Weekly Blog Entry — Music Video / Song (embed); see prompt (#2)

 
F 29-Oct Jason Nelson: Dreamaphage Link 2 (2003-04) & Between Treacherous Objects (2006)

Due: Exercise 4 Assignment (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241) — prompt here

Due: Sat 30-Oct: Fakebook Update — Inventory

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Part Four “Community Database”

M 18-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 7 “History (School)” Online Discussion (see below)

» key topics: 
 
Riddles of Sense & High Concept; “Ficelle,” quilting, conductive logic, syncretism;
Narrative & History {“Donor,” Sender, Receiver, focalization} Value, “interpellation”;
“secondary encounter” (recognition); “cognitive map”; attunement, Stimmung ; “extimacy”
 
→ closely read: Office, “On the Premises” (191), & all “Comment” sub-sections.
» review Project Two Part II “Community Discourse” (pp.191-2)

• Due: Exercise 3 Assignment (“High Concept” p. 198)
   
• Screening: Be Kind Rewind (Dir. Gondry, 2008)

W 20-Oct Internet Invention Chp 7 & Jacqueline Goss: “Solstice” (2007) — info
 

F 22-Oct Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

Due: Weekly Blog Entry

 
21-22 Oct   » English Graduate Organization Annual Conference:

“Allusion, Adaptation, and Appropriation” — Schedule (PDF)
• attendance/participation extra credit (contact for details)
• Keynote speaker (Thurs 6pm) Douglas Lainer,
  author of Shakespeare & Modern Popular Culture (Oxford UP, 2002)

 

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Notes for High Concept & Project 2

• We are not composing analytical arguments, but ThreadWork:

  » “The logic of sense (conduction) opens up the linear dialectic of literacy to an entanglement of multiple threads
  (we are learning more about how a felt works).” (Ulmer 176)

   

• Theory for Praxis:

  “The mystory is a high concept meeting of discourse figures whose only connection is you.
  High concept is Hollywood haiku.” (Ulmer 197)

 

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