Posts Tagged ‘memory’

Apparatus Ideals (“which one?”)

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 04 2010
        “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-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)
 
 

Endocept

Schedule / Update, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
Jan 23 2010

 
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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                Wabi-Sabi

                Schedule / Update, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
                Jan 17 2010

                 
                M 18-Jan No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

                     
                    W 20-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”

                           
                          R 21-Jan (E1-E3) Discuss: Fisher; Wabi-Sabi, “Attunement,” “Illumination” (Ulmer)

                              Screening: The Virgin Suicides (Dir. Coppola, 1999; 97 min.)

                             
                            F 22-Jan Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” & “Illumination”) — prompt below
                             
                             
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