TODAY'S CLASS: pattern for core readings
Opening Up to Affirmative (re)reading/writing: keeping it "new":
12 April -- "new": Stallings & Shotwell & Allied Media
- Shotwell: Part I, Part III.5, Conclusion (Aftab, Lundy-Harris)
- Stallings: Part 1.4, Part II, Conclusion (Attia, Hagen)
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=how does (re)writing entail (re)reading?
=how are writing and reading mutually co-consituting? how are they thoroughly entangled?
=think: Derrida and "writing" too: "writing" of this sort INCLUDES speech, the oral, and all "literacies" of the "literal" -- presentation, action, performance, and more....
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WHERE ARE WE IN THE COURSE RIGHT NOW?
WE BEGIN SECTION 3: >>>BECOMING TOGETHER AND APART
>This title comes from Svedmark's thesis and indexes her new materialist practices.
>Notice that Stallings weaves in and out and around new materialism too.
>Notice that Shotwell practices a prefigurative politics that attempts to be that which it intends to create in the world. For some the term "praxis" means this, for others "praxis" is a more strictly "synthesis" term. (what's the difference?)
Shotwell, p. 166: "articulations of prefigurative politics -- the practice of collectively acting in the present in a way that enacts the world we aspire to create."
NOTICE THAT SECTION 3 ENDS WITH OUR FINAL CLASS, OUR POSTER SESSION, AND THAT OUR COURSE PAPER WEBSITE GOES LIVE THEN.
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READINGS FOR SECTION 3:
• WEBSITE: Allied Media Projects: https://alliedmedia.org
• WEBSITE: Self-Compassion: http://self-compassion.org
• Stallings. 2015. Funk. Illinois.
• Shotwell. 2016. Against. Minnesota.
• Roelvink. 2015. Possible. Minnesota.
• Wilson. 2015. Gut. Duke.
• Marcus. 2015. Self-Care. Mocana.
• Neff. 2015. Self-Compassion. William Morrow.
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WHAT'S COMING UP TODAY AND THE REST OF THE TERM
12 April -- "new": Stallings & Shotwell & Allied Media
- Shotwell: Part I, Part III.5, Conclusion (Aftab, Lundy-Harris)
- Stallings: Part 1.4, Part II, Conclusion (Attia, Hagen)
19 April -- worlds: Roelvink or Wilson (Peskin, Walker)
26 April -- care: Stallings then Marcus or Neff; review all
- Stallings: revisit based on what we discover throughout semester (Aftab, Knowles)
- Marcus or Neff (Hagen, Lundy-Harris)
3 May -- <poster & website workshop> Katie out of town
10 May -- <poster session> COMING TOGETHER AND APART: everything due.
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TODAY'S CLASS: pattern for core readings
Opening Up to Affirmative (re)reading/writing: keeping it "new":
=how does (re)writing entail (re)reading?
=how are writing and reading mutually co-consituting? how are they thoroughly entangled?
=think: Derrida and "writing" too: "writing" of this sort INCLUDES speech, the oral, and all "literacies" of the "literal" -- presentation, action, performance, and more....
• INVESTIGATE WEBSITE: Allied Media Projects: https://alliedmedia.org
• READ: Shotwell: Part I, Part III.5, Conclusion (Aftab, Lundy-Harris); Stallings: Part 1.4, Part II, Conclusion (Attia, Hagen)
• 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.
• 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).
>>BEFORE BREAK:
PRESENTATION ONE led by Aftab, Lundy-Harris
• 3:45 pm and go for ONLY TWENTY minutes (timed!)
• 4:05 Aftab, Lundy-Harris facilitate discussion until break at 4:45 pm
DISCUSSION: it is the responsibility of the WHOLE class to bring in text details AND CONNECT THEM TO CONTEXT offered by Aftab, Lundy-Harris!
Details to be drawn from: Shotwell: Part I, Part III.5, Conclusion and ALLIED MEDIA and other as appropriate.
Shotwell, p. 196: "One key difference between a conspiracy theorist and an activist, for lack of a better word, is that the conspiracy theorist holds that the best defense is more and better knowledge (read my website, listen to my explanation, investigate what you know) and the activist holds that the best defense is creating another world.... People doing movement work usually get lots of things wrong, which might not be such a problem -- if the purpose of the work isn't to be right. Instead, our purpose is to contingently make it be something that deserves a future has one.... trying to move beyond the epistemic and into the ontic -- we are attempting to prefigure something."
[screen shot from http://itstartswithus-mmiw.com ]
>>AFTER BREAK:
PRESENTATION TWO led by Attia, Hagen
• start at EXACTLY 5 pm (timed!) and go for ONLY TWENTY minutes (timed!)
• 5:20 pm Attia, 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 Attia, Hagen!
Details from: Stallings: Part 1.4, Part II, Conclusion and ALLIED MEDIA and other as appropriate.
Stallings, pp. 235-6: "By examining space and sites where narratives and performances of the body provocatively intersect with expressions of interior movement, I have theorized how the need for such centers has already been // articulated elsewhere -- profane sites of memory. Reading these spaces with a methodology that incorporates the importance of aesthetics and sacred forces, as well as ethics and public spheres, brings us closer to developing communal practices of love and intimacy that can embrace all."
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