Dear All,
Welcome to your course, Experiments in Text: Reclaiming Public Spaces! This should be a fun, but socially-politically and aesthetically generative (and urgent) quarter. I’m looking forward to getting started.
Class is located in Sem II C2109 – both days, Weds at 5pm and on Sat at 4pm.
There are no readings or writings due for the first day. Rather, we’ll spend some time discussing major themes of the quarter, logistics, and writing processes, spending some time responding to any questions. We’ll likely get out a little early that first day. For future, however, I’ll be emailing everyone links to weekly readings (or attaching pdfs when necessary), as well as putting up these readings on our course blog. The blog will also be a place for announcements and the occasional extrapolation on ideas / materials covered in class. So, please bookmark this blog address (note that the name will change to reflect this quarter’s course, but note too that you’ll have at your fingertips resources of all short courses I’ve taught since 2007):
http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/
I also have a public blog that is worth putting in your virtual back pocket, since I write on contemporary issues in poetics and politics here, thus making that blog potentially useful, though non-required, as resource:
http://davidwolach.blogspot.com/
The readings posted to the first link above will be very short and will serve to give us context and models to play with, work off, discuss. They’ll range from works of poetry to multi-media artworks, to, again, short critical writing. I am mindful that this is a 4 credit course, so will keep workload at a level appropriate for 4 credits. It’s the quality of work we do with one another that I’m interested in, not quantity or breadth. And so with such little time to play with, primacy will be given to the work each of you do, individually and collaboratively, over assigned readings. We’ll spend a good amount of time outside the classroom this quarter.
Anyhow, I’m really looking forward to learning from and with you this quarter. And to getting to know those of you I have yet to meet/work with.
See you Wednesday,
In Solidarity,
david wolach
Experiments in Text: Spring 2011