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M 12-Apr Conclusion (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” — A Consultation (postponed)
- Presentation: Group 4
Example: aporia visualization (not WideSite) — myOptica (ghink, 2008)
W 14-Apr Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)
- Presentation: Group 1
Blog Entry — Workshop prep. (due by class-time Thurs.)
- “Sketch” of emblem (wide image). Tips / Notes
cf. Ulmer’s Emblem (pp. 271-5) & Noon Star (section of mystory)
R 15-Apr “Studio”: Workshop (poetics & praxis)— Project 3 (part 1)
F 16-Apr Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0 & Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)
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“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”
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» 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)
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
M 29-Mar Internet Invention Chp. 9 (246-60). Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”
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» key topics: Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
“cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
— Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
“the irreparable” gap (Agamben); “void”; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
→ closely read: Assignment & all four “Comment” sub-sections.
W 31-Mar Internet Invention Chp. 9 (261-77). Discuss: “Template”
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» key topics: wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
— Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
→ closely read: Office & all four “Comment” sub-sections.
Due: Weekly Blog Entry (normal schedule) — Prompt: “Patterning” (p.248)
R 01-Apr Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kauffman, 2008)
F 02-Apr Discuss: “cinema-poetry” Relays (Tarkovsky & Kaufmann)
- Due Sat 03-Apr: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p.223 & “Being Singular” p.241)
“Theory supplement” to Ulmer’s presentation on “daimon” & “measure” (limit) in electracy.
- from Heuretics blog; all entries strongly recommended:
- Unheimlich (04-Mar)
- Fate Web (20-Feb)
- Avatar Emergency (16-Sep 2009)
- reading tip: reverse chrono., then “Duende” (current chapter concept), then chrono. review of these three entries.
from Ulmer:
Bordando el Manto Terrestre by Remedios Varo (1961)
(“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle,” center of triptych here)
“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
more like music than like concepts.” (91) — Ulmer, Heuretics
- Stimmung = “mood,” “atmosphere,” tone or “tuning”
- — of “chora(l) category” (Internet Invention p.101).
See below, including “Micro-Guest-Relay Lecture”….
- → key lesson: modality of method and (eventual) poetics of project
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Stimmung for Six Vocalists: (Relay?)
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