2012-13 Catalog

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Offering Description

Writing our Future Histories: Creative writing out of struggle

REVISED

Winter 2013 quarter

Faculty
David Wolach creative writing, poetics, aesthetics, media/performing arts
Fields of Study
cultural studies, political economy and writing
Description

This course challenges students to write the world that does not yet exist. Or, as Marxian poet and theorist of radical black performance Fred Moten proposes, we will engage in writing that "investigates new ways for people to get together and do stuff in the open, in secret." Each week we’ll work individually and collaboratively on writing experiments—prose, poetry, essay—that critique and advance beyond our own assumptions about what is socially possible and that do so by paying careful attention to the rhythms of current crises. As a basis for this creative production, we will engage critically with writers whose work exists at the point where the border between politics and art ruptures. In sound, in sight, and through a kind of improvisatory ensemble we will resist what too often gets counted as the inevitable outcome of a political economy that treats people as objects that just happen to speak. What is inevitable about the future, and what is it about controlled acts of creative improvisation that helps us not just see but hear our future’s past?

Advertised Schedule
5-7p Wed, 4-6p Sat
Location
Olympia
Online Learning
Enhanced Online Learning
Books
Greener Store
Offered During
Evening and Weekend

Program Revisions

Date Revision
October 26th, 2012 Slight change to title
October 22nd, 2012 Saturday hours changed to 4-6pm.