ARCHIVE - Comments for Evergreen Course Blog | Spring 2011 | Reclaiming Public Spaces http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd Experiments in Text is a Collective Blog for Students & Where Some of the Readings & Can Be Found Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ARCHIVE - Comment on Readings for Weds, Week 3: Psychogeograpy & Poetry as Investigating “Everyday Life” by Michael Lopez http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2011/04/11/readings-for-weds-week-3-psychogeograpy-poetry-as-investigating-everyday-life/comment-page-1/#comment-19071 Michael Lopez Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:50:06 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=556#comment-19071 I've been wanting to make magnetic shoes. I've been wanting to push ice. I've been wanting to find the other half to my trombone. Francis Alys and the Derive? http://www.hughpearman.com/articles5/alys.html -Wish I was in, this quarter. I'll be following. I’ve been wanting to make magnetic shoes.
I’ve been wanting to push ice.
I’ve been wanting to find the other half to my trombone.

Francis Alys and the Derive?
http://www.hughpearman.com/articles5/alys.html

-Wish I was in, this quarter. I’ll be following.

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Week 1 Readings: For Weds, Jan 5 by Nur Greene http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/12/28/week-1-readings-for-weds-jan-5/comment-page-1/#comment-12858 Nur Greene Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:11:10 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=473#comment-12858 The 'Docile Bodies' article can be found online at this link http://www.scribd.com/doc/26150474/Foucault-M-Discipline-Punish-The-Birth-of-the-Prison-Tr-Sheridan-NY-Vintage-1977-1995 . It starts on pg. 146 . The ‘Docile Bodies’ article can be found online at this link http://www.scribd.com/doc/26150474/Foucault-M-Discipline-Punish-The-Birth-of-the-Prison-Tr-Sheridan-NY-Vintage-1977-1995 . It starts on pg. 146 .

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Week 2: Reading for Weds, Books to Order, Writing Prompt by tiny kraken http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2011/01/10/week-2-reading-for-weds-books-to-order-writing-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-12836 tiny kraken Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:48:04 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=475#comment-12836 re: artaud words as diving/spring board notice: ferlinghetti uses the overused "signaling thru the flames" w/out attribution as 1st line of his poetry as insurgent art poem i guess we all know that one by now kind of like "april is the cruelest month" re: artaud words as diving/spring board
notice: ferlinghetti uses the overused “signaling thru the flames” w/out
attribution
as 1st line of his poetry as insurgent art poem
i guess we all know that one by now
kind of like “april is the cruelest month”

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Insurrection Groups: In-Progress (subject to change) by Aviva Siegel http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/10/27/insurrection-groups-in-progress-subject-to-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7899 Aviva Siegel Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:28:26 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=429#comment-7899 My name is Aviva! Not Avivia... My name is Aviva! Not Avivia…

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture 5: Identity, Authorship, Agency & Poetic Knowledge by wolachd http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/02/01/lecture-5-identity-authorship-agency-poetic-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-5138 wolachd Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:29:43 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=202#comment-5138 Hey buddy: Stalk was presented in part, at PRESS (Corpus plus presentation), as well, which predates the colloquium, if you want to talk com., mr. back-stage pass... :) & the breakup might be considered cells, or not. depends on who you ask, no? hence the wiki being a dispute as much as an "error" :) dw Hey buddy: Stalk was presented in part, at PRESS (Corpus plus presentation), as well, which predates the colloquium, if you want to talk com., mr. back-stage pass… :) & the breakup might be considered cells, or not. depends on who you ask, no? hence the wiki being a dispute as much as an “error” :)

dw

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture 5: Identity, Authorship, Agency & Poetic Knowledge by Will Owen http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/02/01/lecture-5-identity-authorship-agency-poetic-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-5136 Will Owen Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:36:54 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=202#comment-5136 Go Koot! I'm too much of a canadiophile to let wiki stay that out of date: Nick Perrin is not a british theology prof, he graduated from Evergreen 06, & finished up at SFU 2008 (worked at KAOS before I did). 'What is to be Undone?' was dropped before the colloquium, which was called N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium (Elrick's 'Stalk' was one of the pieces comissioned). It was also a update of KSW's first big event, the 1985 New Poetics colloquium (only time all the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets were ever in the same room at the same time), which was itself a update of Creely's 1963 Poetics Colloquium hosted for Charles Olson, & a few new american poets. Poetry's only bidecatrienalle? (or so) & KSW now has 30+ members, organized into cells (I don't know how it exactly works - it's a very complex organism). Go Koot! I’m too much of a canadiophile to let wiki stay that out of date:

Nick Perrin is not a british theology prof, he graduated from Evergreen 06, & finished up at SFU 2008 (worked at KAOS before I did).

‘What is to be Undone?’ was dropped before the colloquium, which was called N 49 15.832 – W 123 05.921 Positions Colloquium (Elrick’s ‘Stalk’ was one of the pieces comissioned). It was also a update of KSW’s first big event, the 1985 New Poetics colloquium (only time all the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets were ever in the same room at the same time), which was itself a update of Creely’s 1963 Poetics Colloquium hosted for Charles Olson, & a few new american poets. Poetry’s only bidecatrienalle? (or so)

& KSW now has 30+ members, organized into cells (I don’t know how it exactly works – it’s a very complex organism).

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture Transcript (Week 1) by wolachd http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/01/06/lecture-transcript-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4949 wolachd Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:43:41 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=168#comment-4949 Nice summative positioning of these questions: quickly, yes, the divergence is a Marxist one: "to each his or her desires and abilities," where in the aesthetic sphere, in the utopian thought experiment of "all needs being met," the question is whether art has use value, that is, whether Kantian Beauty would turn out to be the aesthetic, and as such, the "useless use" of art. But in this material and ideological situation, needs and desires become confused, and what one sees as ornamental, or what one sees as a desire, that of the re-up of the aesthetic experience, might actually be a particular need, perhaps an essentialist one--like food, or clothing. Or perhaps (yet another Marx inflected value): an instrumental value, where art's autonomy is its heteronomy, its scale of difference from the everyday. Which is to acknowledge Kantian claims on the judgment while giving pretty much the whole Critique an anterior subjunctive translation--what will have been, or what if as seen thru the future's eye... --D Nice summative positioning of these questions:

quickly, yes, the divergence is a Marxist one: “to each his or her desires and abilities,” where in the aesthetic sphere, in the utopian thought experiment of “all needs being met,” the question is whether art has use value, that is, whether Kantian Beauty would turn out to be the aesthetic, and as such, the “useless use” of art. But in this material and ideological situation, needs and desires become confused, and what one sees as ornamental, or what one sees as a desire, that of the re-up of the aesthetic experience, might actually be a particular need, perhaps an essentialist one–like food, or clothing. Or perhaps (yet another Marx inflected value): an instrumental value, where art’s autonomy is its heteronomy, its scale of difference from the everyday. Which is to acknowledge Kantian claims on the judgment while giving pretty much the whole Critique an anterior subjunctive translation–what will have been, or what if as seen thru the future’s eye…

–D

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture Transcript (Week 1) by Will Owen http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/01/06/lecture-transcript-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4933 Will Owen Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:48:22 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=168#comment-4933 Well, actually I suppose I should interrogate 'need' and 'want' more before positioning them distant from aesthetics. I mean a particular (Immanuel Kant's) use of aesthetics: "...[T]he aesthetic experience is intense precisely to the extent that it is devoid of interest. "All interest," Kant says, whether empircal or rational, "either presupposes a need or gives rise to one"; only aesthetic judgement is detached from need....It's only when I don't need something that my liking for it, my being affected by it, can be "disinterested and free" (Kant 1987, 52). The disinterested contemplation of beauty is a utopian conception, in that it requires and presupposes a world in which human needs have already been fulfilled." "Aesthetic disinterest may seem cold and detached, but it isn't neutral. From the indifference of the object to the disinterest of the subject - or from the former's superfluous self-exhibition to the latter's ungrounded reception - the experience of beauty is one of distance of separation." - Steve Shaviro, Without Criteria, pg 5. So aesthetics is interest free? I guess that doesn't put need and want outside of it, but it does exclude the cognition of needs and wants I think - or that they can't be presupposed seriously (or formally). One way that Toscano (and perhaps the project that you're building up through this course) diverges from history of aesthetic thinking that's seeping out of the book I just finished is that Toscoano/Aesthetic pedagogy is that the disinterest is there without the (beautiful) separation (from one's needs/wants) so that you can have your subjectivity and aesthetically experience a cake too. Well, actually I suppose I should interrogate ‘need’ and ‘want’ more before positioning them distant from aesthetics. I mean a particular (Immanuel Kant’s) use of aesthetics:

“…[T]he aesthetic experience is intense precisely to the extent that it is devoid of interest. “All interest,” Kant says, whether empircal or rational, “either presupposes a need or gives rise to one”; only aesthetic judgement is detached from need….It’s only when I don’t need something that my liking for it, my being affected by it, can be “disinterested and free” (Kant 1987, 52). The disinterested contemplation of beauty is a utopian conception, in that it requires and presupposes a world in which human needs have already been fulfilled.”

“Aesthetic disinterest may seem cold and detached, but it isn’t neutral. From the indifference of the object to the disinterest of the subject – or from the former’s superfluous self-exhibition to the latter’s ungrounded reception – the experience of beauty is one of distance of separation.”
- Steve Shaviro, Without Criteria, pg 5.

So aesthetics is interest free? I guess that doesn’t put need and want outside of it, but it does exclude the cognition of needs and wants I think – or that they can’t be presupposed seriously (or formally).

One way that Toscano (and perhaps the project that you’re building up through this course) diverges from history of aesthetic thinking that’s seeping out of the book I just finished is that Toscoano/Aesthetic pedagogy is that the disinterest is there without the (beautiful) separation (from one’s needs/wants) so that you can have your subjectivity and aesthetically experience a cake too.

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture Transcript (Week 1) by wolachd http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/01/06/lecture-transcript-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4921 wolachd Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:11:02 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=168#comment-4921 Thanks for the comment, Will. Why would an aesthetics of pedagogy presume or entail no needs or wants? One can imagine a directed aesthetics; Toscano's aesthetics, if also a pedagogy (not that he would put it this way, particularly) involves participants in CPT who approach with particular desires, if not also needs--? Here I'm supposing by "needs or wants" you mean of the very particular sort, those which look for x or y in the pedagogy-aesthetics yet to take place, not "needs and wants" generally... D Thanks for the comment, Will.

Why would an aesthetics of pedagogy presume or entail no needs or wants? One can imagine a directed aesthetics; Toscano’s aesthetics, if also a pedagogy (not that he would put it this way, particularly) involves participants in CPT who approach with particular desires, if not also needs–? Here I’m supposing by “needs or wants” you mean of the very particular sort, those which look for x or y in the pedagogy-aesthetics yet to take place, not “needs and wants” generally…

D

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ARCHIVE - Comment on Lecture Transcript (Week 1) by William Owen http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/blog/2010/01/06/lecture-transcript-week-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4920 William Owen Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:49:30 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/?p=168#comment-4920 But I forgot to be more straightforward: an aesthetics of pedagogy would be something that all participants would bring a disinterested distance to, and it wouldn't presume that any of the participants come with needs or wants. What would that look like? (looking forward to Ranciere, after finishing a big study of the play of aesthetics from Kant to Whitehead to Deleuze and back again) -w But I forgot to be more straightforward: an aesthetics of pedagogy would be something that all participants would bring a disinterested distance to, and it wouldn’t presume that any of the participants come with needs or wants. What would that look like? (looking forward to Ranciere, after finishing a big study of the play of aesthetics from Kant to Whitehead to Deleuze and back again)

-w

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