M 05-Apr Internet 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.
W 07-Apr Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001) & Morrissey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)
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
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
» note: “Inventory” pages fully updated (late / “overdue”) — required for group work.
» over weekend, collaborate with group (online).
M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse
Presentations: Groups 1 & 2
W 17-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Vniverse
Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
» suggest: entry about Strickland (as relay); or Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)
R 18-Feb “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 1
F 19-Feb “Studio”: Composition Work (independent)
Note: necessary to show progress (“in progress”) this afternoon,
in place of today’s class (otherwise, no Att/Part. credit).
S 20-Feb » Due: Project 1
update: (posted by/on “Saturday night” — no deadline time now,
but I will check pages on Sunday morning.)
— deadline for email to guarantee reply: 8pm
(I will certainly read and try to reply afterward;
definitely send any “emergency notifications” regardless.)
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M 08-Feb Spiegelman:
Maus I (“My Father Bleeds History” )
Discuss: Narrative & Image
» reading tip: goal is not to “race through” this “quick read” — rather, examine more attentively, like when viewing the New Media sites in prior weeks.
W 10-Feb Maus I
Extract Lessons: Time/Frames & Design
R 11-Feb Maus II (“And Here My Troubles Began”)
Exercise (in class): “Micro Scenes” (p.92)
F 12-Feb Maus II
Online Discussion: “Relay” lessons
(for Inventory & Project praxis)
— Due (Fri PM): Inventory updated through week 5
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» Note: Group Presentations Page (for weekend preparation)
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M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”
W 27-Jan Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer(1997) and The Doll Games (2001)
→ Instructions for “Inventory” page here.
R 28-Jan Screening:Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996)
F 29-Jan Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home Online Discussion (see below)
Due: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 “in progress”)
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