In short, composing an assemblage involves thinking and writing with your entire “three-dimensional” or “360°” perspective: personal / autobio.; career/discipline; community; entertainment / culture. (prompt: Try specifying and noticing which dimension emerges most prominent in your thinking and writing at first, through your entries.)
Strongly suggest reviewing all instructions and criteria.
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1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
2. To churn or swirl about continuously.
noun:
1. Toil; hard work; drudgery.
2. Confusion; turmoil.
Quotes:
Why should he toil and moil, and be at so much trouble to pick himself up out the mud, when, in a little while hence, the strong arm of his Uncle will raise and support him?
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
He saw himself in the sleepless moil of early parenthood, and felt a plunging anxiety.
– Alan Hollinghurst, The Spell
» Origin:
Moil comes from Middle English moillen, “to soak, to wet,” hence “to soil, to soil one’s hands, to work very hard,” from Old French moillier, “to soften, especially by making wet,” ultimately from Latin mollis, “soft.”
M 19-Apr“Studio” Workshop — from emblem to refashioning concept (in electracy).
» Tuning / Warm-up (checkpoint):
emblem: selections finalized (one’s “ingredients” for “recipe”);
“sketches” in progress (online) and/or finalized.
tentative topic for project — Career or Community dimensions
Praxis: more direct/explicit than last week, implicit in our review of Chapters 9-11.
cf. Chp. 1-2, “General Project,” “Attunement,” “Stimmung” etc.; plus “Mystory” (Chp 3).
» re-view elec. lit. by Coverley & Morrisey for Inventory — discuss online? (particpt. credit)
— suggested Relay reading for Inventory (scheduled for next Fri.):
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
“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).
M 05-AprInternet Invention Chp. 10 (278-98): “The Ideal of Value”
» key topics:Wide Image / emblem, EmerAgency,
“native” state of mind (// wabi-sabi), default moods; encounter; paideia, sage; Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals; “which one?” (283-4); ressentiment; sage & ascetic ideal;
“no telling without living” (288) — aphorism/thought & anecdote/life;
The Wall (“le mur“); disaster of duty; “whirling square” (geometry & art) * Office (296-8): ideal / value; paradox; attunement.
Weekly Blog Entry — optional (e.c.)
— more “web fiction” by M.D. Coverley here; cf. “Fingerprints on Digital Glass” series
— more electronic lit. by Judd Morrisey here. cf. The Last Performance
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