OUR FIRST PRESENTATIONS!
yes, it's a bit nerve-wracking until we have done it and see how it works.
yes, today we may be getting mixed up, messing up the structure (and maybe changing it), working things out in real time. nothing will be perfect, everything will be human, there will be mistakes, we will play with it caringly, daringly.
TAKE A MOMENT TO BREATHE!
as you come into class today, take some time to center yourself, and to relax a bit in the middle of tension. It's not all or nothing, it's attending and feeling and being here together.
TRY:
4 count tactical breathing:
Breathe in for a count of 4
Hold the breath for a count of 4
Breathe out for a count of 4
Hold for a count of 4
see Górska. 2016. Breathing Matters. Linköping. 192-3.
see also: http://www.breathmastery.com/what-is-tactical-breathing/
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Today's website to explore, analyze, read, listen to:
• #LETUSBREATHE Collective: http://www.letusbreathecollective.com
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FROM DIRECTOR OF READINGS & PRESENTATIONS:
this is how we're going to divide up the McKittrick, Shotwell, and Stallings reading throughout the semester:
2/15 - Stallings: Introduction, Parts I.1, I.2, I.3; McKittrick: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6
3/1 - Shotwell: Introduction, Part II, Part III.6; McKittrick: Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
4/12 - Stallings: Part I.4, Part II, Conclusion; Shotwell: Part I, Part III.5, Conclusion
4/26 - Stallings: revisit based on what we discover throughout semester
Then we can all read as much of everything as we want/can, but folks are responsible for being extra attentive to different parts of the readings, so someone can speak to every section in detail in our class discussion. We are all set on these fronts for this week.
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Wednesday 15 February, Let us Breathe: mattering breaths....
• INVESTIGATE WEBSITE: #letusbreathe
• READ: 2/15 - Stallings: Introduction, Parts I.1, I.2, I.3; McKittrick: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6
• MAKING: 2 min. Attendance Portraits (Barry. 2014) HAND THESE IN AT BREAK TO DIRECTOR OF POSTERS Hagen. Damien will collect these through the semester, to be returned to folks as they work first on website and then on final posters.
remember Presentations are research done on CONTEXT with handouts (not text itself)
PRESENTATION ONE led by Peskin & Aftab
will start at 3:45 and go for ONLY TWENTY minutes (timed!)
• at 4:05 Peskin & Aftab facilitate discussion until break at 4:45
DISCUSSION: it is the responsibility of the WHOLE class to bring in text details AND CONNECT THEM TO CONTEXT offered by Peskin & Aftab!
Details to be drawn from: McKittrick: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 and #letusbreathe Collective and other as appropriate.
McKittrick, p. 18: "What I have been attempting to put forward on the basis of Césaire's proposed new science will therefore necessarily call for a rewriting of our present now globally institutionalized order of knowledge."
again: Presentations are research done on CONTEXT with handouts
PRESENTATION TWO led by Knowles & Hagen
will start at EXACTLY 5 pm (timed!) and go for ONLY TWENTY minutes (timed!)
• at 5:20 Knowles & Hagen facilitate discussion until class ends at 6 pm.
DISCUSSION: it is the responsibility of the class to bring in text details AND CONNECT THEM TO CONTEXT offered by Knowles & Hagen!
Details from: Stallings: Introduction, Parts I.1, I.2, I.3 and #letusbreathe Collective and other as appropriate.
Stallings, p. 95: "Rather than expel or avoid these practices, black people, Himes tells us, reinvent them."
MAKE SURE HANDOUTS HAVE BOTH NAMES OF PRESENTERS ON THEM ALONG WITH DATE. Make enough copies to hand out to everyone in class (8 copies).
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• READINGS: Wekker & Schulman (sections TBA)
• PRESENTERS: Lundy-Harris & Attia
BEFORE BREAK: PRESENTATION led by BOTH Lundy-Harris & Attia ON BOTH WEKKER & SCHULMAN (handouts)
will start at 3:45 and go for ONLY TWENTY minutes (timed!)
• at 4:05 Both Lundy-Harris & Attia facilitate discussion until break at 4:45
DISCUSSION: it is the responsibility of the WHOLE class to bring in text details AND CONNECT THEM TO CONTEXT offered by Lundy-Harris & Attia!
AFTER BREAK: CONTINUED FACILITATION led by Lundy-Harris & Attia
DISCUSSION on ALL materials from last week and also this week.
it is the responsibility of the WHOLE class to MAKE SYNTHESIZING CONNECTIONS AMONG OUR READINGS and to offer ideas about USING THESE in various contexts and for various purposes.
WE WILL CONSIDER USING SOME OF THIS TIME after break on paired days FOR PROTOTYPING AND JUST HOW WE WANT TO DO THAT. We may have various exercises as well.
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>>>DIRECTORS AT A GLANCE
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think EMERGENCE and how to participate in it, to prime it, to recognize and pay attention to it, to offer it space to come-into-being -- BEING WITH
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