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Zorn Translations – The Big Gundown

Below are the translations I received from you yesterday.  The first set are your individual pieces, listed by row (instrument set).  The second is a combined piece written by use of a statistical program.  Using the frequency and approximate length … Continue reading

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Post Situationism Post

Here’s a nice link, thanks to Whitney, who sent it to me: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/4/en/display/274 You’ll notice that it’s a list of ways to talk like a situationist.  If you notice, too, every one of these items in the list one can … Continue reading

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Alert: New Old Things! (Readings & Such)

A few things to have for Wednesday, Week 3 (PLEASE READ THE POST BELOW THIS ONE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION FROM CLASS): 1) Readings: we’ll be moving from Debord and derives to translation – the problems and possibilities of translating not … Continue reading

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Some Preliminary Thoughts on The Situation

For today’s post I want to tie the past (week) to the present (week), in order to make some sense of the future (week).  So far we’ve discussed textual experiments as relating to scientific experiments (Retallack), writing to action (Debord … Continue reading

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Form/Function/Politics: Situationism

Read below this post for readings to be done for Wednesday, Week 2.  As is usually the case, our discussion about the role of form in writing experimentation, specifically contemporary poetry/prose, was just getting juicy when… class ended.  A confession: sometimes … Continue reading

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