Hi All,
Here are the readings for this Weds’ lecture/discussion. We’ll generate some writing from these readings, so please print them out as usual and bring them (hopefully in a growing portfolio/folder by now) to class. Come with inquiries and questions etc. And do bring “Theorie Communiste” and the “Bybee Memorandum” below, since we’ll be extending last week’s conversations around alienation, class, and gender into this week’s related conversations.
Many thanks to Rob Halpern, Taylor Brady, and Mazen Kerbaj for providing us with the small excerpt from Halpern and Brady’s “Snow Sensitive Skin.” If you would like a full copy of this book, it’s due out any moment (it may be out now) from Displaced Press. Snow Sensitive Skin was initially published by Atticus/Finch, designed by the editor of the press, poet and book artist Michael Cross. So, the new book will be a 2nd edition/version, one that many of us have been excited to know is forthcoming (other wonderful books by Displaced Press, highly recommended, are on the press’s homepage, for those interested).
READINGS:
1) “Monster, Terrorist, Fag,” by Rai and Puar HERE
2) Excerpt from “Snow Sensitive Skin,” by Rob Halpern and Taylor Brady HERE
WRITING PROMPT:
Remember that for this Weds I asked us all to find someone you do not know, someone that is not famous either, who has died. Read up on them in whatever way your research has led you to find them. Write a letter from them to us, considering the words (think here of the poem by Oliver below) “GRIEF,” “MOURNING,” “FAMILIAR,” “FRIENDSHIP,” and “OTHER.” Use these words to help you get started on writing that letter from them to us, AS them. Afterwards, write a eulogy for them. Consider the forms “letter” and “eulogy.” Consider how they might function, especially in the absence of a real-time relationship with the person you have gotten to know. PLEASE BRING THE POEM AND LETTER TO CLASS WEDS! AND SEND BOTH TO ME BY WEDS NIGHT AS ATTACHMENTS IN AN EMAIL!!
In Solidarity,
david