Dear All,
Below are the readings for Weds. Lecture. Our aim this week is to delve deeper into Ranciere, and to tackle these questions: a) as in the short Review of Radical Pedagogy, we can think of alternative education in America as historically split between emancipation from institutional learning (universities, colleges), and reform of those institutions from within. How does Ranciere relate to and/or complicate this binary? b) both the Situationists and Ranciere make art and aesthetic practices central to a process of (literally) redistributing the sensible. How might this happen? And finally, c) using this week’s reading as a springboard, where is the “art” located? That is, when we say “art has use value” to potentially “change the way we think and act,” what do we mean by “art”? Where or what is it? In the case of Oppen, is the art the poem on the page? Keep these questions in mind as central to our inquiries, then build from them your own questions.
The below readings are shorter than usual. There are two reasons for this. 1) The Ranciere is difficult, elusive, and we need linger on this work, especially so we can go back and look at Oppen and the review. 2) I got the sense that a lot of you read too quickly or not entirely last week. Since lecture will become decreasingly “lecture-like,” it’ll become more obvious when we’ve rushed. More obvious is your absence from class, which again complicates our endeavors, and does so at the expense of your peers.
READINGS:
1) Draft Proposal, Nonsite Collective HERE
http://www.nonsitecollective.org/workbooks/Organization/DraftProposal
2) Re-Read the Ranciere (you have it as attachment pdf and below and in your email as in-body text)
3) Re-Read the Oppen (from Of Being Numerous–link several posts below, and in your email)
4) Jules Boykoff, from Hegemonic Love Potion HERE
5) Kaia Sand, one poem from Remember to Wave HERE
HIGHLY SUGGESTED READING for THIS WEEK:
6) Exercises in Seeing by David Buuck, various artists, read by Cassandra Smith (listen to the audio, but read all text on this page too!) HERE
HOMEWORK DUE BY WEDS =>
Please pick 1 Page from Nonsite Collective’s curricula and read it (be prepared to discuss it) HERE
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REMINDERS
Please remember that there will be a (up to) 15 minute “student” lecture at beginning on Weds.
Please also remember to email me any preferences or anti-preferences regarding who you want to work with in final group formation.
Please remember to finish your “student”-driven workshop poems, due by Sat
Please remember to do your derive, with its recorded material and description of constraints used/what you did, due in writing by Sat
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THURSDAY: PRESS EVENT, 2010: JULES BOYKOFF & KAIA SAND Read & Discuss. Please attend.
PRESS 2009-2010: Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand
Join poet/activists Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand for a tour of their latest work
The Evergreen State College
Where: Sem II Building, Room C1105
When: January 28, 7:30pm
Boykoff and Sand helped organize the recent Econvergence conference in Portland (http://www.econvergence.org/). They are the founders of the Tangent Press and reading series in Portland (http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html) and co-authored a new book on guerrilla poetry entitled Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press 2008).
Boykoff is the author, most recently, of Hegemonic Love Potion (Factory School, 2009) and Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006). He has also published and lectured widely on the suppression of dissent in the United States. He is a contributor to scholarly journals like Antipode, Social Movement Studies, and New Political Science as well as popular publications like the Guardian, Common Dreams, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. He was an invited speaker at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya (2006), where he presented research he carried out on U.S. media coverage of global warming.
Sand is the author most recently of Remember to Wave, forthcoming this winter with Tinfish Press. This collection investigates political geography in Portland, Oregon, and contains a poetry walk she guides. Her collection, interval (Edge Books 2004), was selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year and she is also the author/designer of several chapbooks through the Dusie Kollektiv. She is a contributor to Jim Dine’s Hot Dreams series (Steidl Editions 2008) and recently performed poetry collaged entirely from the North American Free Trade Agreement at the Positions Colloquium of the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, British Columbia. At present, she is at work on The Happy Valley Project, multi-media collaborations investigating housing foreclosures and finance.