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.
Deadline for email, to guarantee reply in time to revise/apply: Sat 24-Apr 6 pm.
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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).
Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, beginning week 2 and due each Wednesday except when noted (e.g. project weeks). Entries are informal and ungraded, except for credit. This is an on-going “Research Journal, ” testing ideas and compiling “materials” for the projects: associative links and media, questions and hypotheses; observations and insights—particularly connections between media within and outside of class.
Elaborating upon this, “orientation” and specific suggestions about blogging below.
