Due: 04-Mar (posted by 10pm); 500 words min.; 10 points

Exercise: High Concept
Select one person or character who appears in the documents for each discourse and [present] their relationship in the style of high concept. (p. 198)

 
» Prompt clarification (from students’ Q thus far):
This refers specifically to the 3 dimensions of popcycle, from the 3 Assignments in textbook thus far: Career, p. 21; Family, p. 86; Entertainment, p.127 (also see “On the Premises” p.191).

(additional answer) This parameter is flexible in that you are not bound to the individuals explicitly discussed in your Project 1 sections; however, maintain the same “career domain” (your field), memory context (time/place setting), and a media narrative (movie, TV, book) from “childhood years” (K-12).

 
 
 » Tip from reading:  review pp. 195-7.

“Ficelle,” “Riddles of Sense,” “Example: High Concept”
(key concepts: “syncretic,” narrative “displacement”; “logic of riddles,” “conductive sense,” “metaphor’s dynamics”; “nth degree,” “hook,” “Hollywood haiku.”)

 » Composing Guide: 

• Organization: Fragments, (prose, narrative “clips”; not literally “haiku”); not coherent story or even paragraphs. Tip: think of mode as “sketching a scene” (TV logic?).
  Comment: formal appearance parameters deliberately unspecified in order to promote inventive/innovative composition approaches; in other words, experiment stylistically in your writing — especially organization. (learning from but superseding “creative nonfiction” in our method.)

   

• Style: Expressive, by putting into relation unlike “characters” in assemblage fashion (juxtaposition logic); leave relation implicit (expressed), rather than explaining or defining. (i.e. remove descriptive frame of explanation, which essay form requires of examples).
   
  Analogy from Project 1 poetics —
  for essay, Argument/Claims : “Support Evidence” :: for syncretic ThreadWork, _______ (Stimmung, resonance?) : _________ “Support” (media, culture, concrete figures?).

   

• Composition: concise & precise points/phrasing (“haiku logic” of efficiency); concrete description (like example “Medicine Ficelle” pp. 198-9)
   
  Tip: Try “middle voice” if you can, or at least leaving out yourself as sender/receiver.
  • Haiku Design (Ulmer’s aesthetic example, chapter 2)

 

• Formal/Design: Feel free to use an image for one of the three dimensions (ideally, edited for your purpose/context, yes?); not required to post images for any/all three, though.

  → Strongly suggest incorporating at least one (multi)media element, particularly audio/video clips.

  Comment: this is especially important if you’ve not attempted, both in technical and poetic aspects; and in “haiku logic,” cultural elements can express much quite efficiently, both with connotation and aesthetic qualities, (e.g. song, character, “style/signature,” logo/icon).
  Try using media as expressive mode, rather than as “empirical documentation” (referential, representation mode; review Project feedback on this).
  This is “warm up” for Project 2 in certain ways — experimenting with both aesthetics/design & writing.
  Review course method for “tuning” & “warm up” in blog as “band rehearsal.”

 
 
 » Relays: :

• Ulmer’s example: May Stevens “Ordinary Extraordinary” (pp. 193-4)

• Brick — what is the X-Y operation here? (most have identified in their Inventory notes)
• Block Party (“Dave Chappelle’s”?) — X-Y-Z formula? (in general, “Entertainment” + “Community” = Style Expressing “Stimmung“; but more specifically, for these 3 categories?)
   

•  Potential Relay  (key textbook instructions): “Alice in Cyberspace” (173)
  review: “inventio” (173); “Meetings in Wonderland” (174) — riddle logic, conductive reason.
   
  • Comment: indeed, Deleuze writes The Logic of Sense as theory composed in the style of modernist literature: his “high concept” pairing is Stoic philosophy + Lewis Carroll, to discuss paradox.
    — always remember our contrast, the argumentative essay; electracy is invented in Entertainment (Ulmer “argues/proves”), not the ENC 1101/2 classroom after all!

similarities / distinctions between our ThreadWork, Collage, and Mash-up?
(in aesthetics, obviously, but more so logic)

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