Here are the readings for this week, a 2nd lecture-discussion on site-specificity and a poetics-pedagogy of political intervention & “reclamation” of lived environments.
Yet Thought is a bodily function. — Tonya Foster
David Buuck, “The Jhoke” HERE
BARGE, “Buried Treasure Island,” HERE (look around enough to come up with a couple good questions/observations as to what you think is going on here, what forms are being employed and why…)
Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Excerpt of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry & Public Space (courtesy of Nonsite Collective) HERE
Thom Donovan “Art Strike, Anyone?” HERE
Thom Donovan, “Notes on Aesthetic Practice & The Commons,” HERE ( part of Nonsite Collective’s series of discussions on The Commons)
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Recommended:
Silvia Federici, excerpt from her book Caliban And The Witch HERE (we’ll look at this work as part of required reading later in the quarter)
Synopsis of Kaia Sand’s Remember to Wave by Susan Schultz HERE
Tonya Foster, Synopsis by Charles Bernstein, with link to her PennSound Page at bottom, a page of recordings of Foster reading her manuscript in-progress. HERE
David Wolach, “The Commons & The Body” for the Nonsite Collective series of talks on The Commons. HERE
Kaia Sand, Remember to Wave
Juliana Spahr, Fuck You Aloha
Aaron Vidaver, “Woodsquat,” a book of collected materials from the very intense squatting / squatter’s rights campaign in Vancouver Vidaver took part in HERE
Robert Kocik, “Stanzas on Commoning” HERE
Liz Grosz, “Bodies & Cities” (we’ll read this as part of a later weekly required readings when we get to gender & poetics)