While this might actually be considered the 7th class, I don't count midterm exam writing as a class.
Nov. 2
Anxiety of Influence
Canonicity
Pataphysics
Meeting Annie
The ending of
Poetry selection of reprotext
situating Seth > functions as an individual
processed through othering and projection
self deceptive work to maintain a sense of individualism
recursion > nostalgia squared
self reflexive process creates a true sense of individuality
individuality recognizes collectivity to create individuality
intellectual slapstick structure
Artist > medium > ephemeral.popular.low > not in museums
{aside} exception is windsor mckay at the louvre as well as seth himself
Annie is odd perhaps
proxies/stand-ins/doubles/variations
Kalo: assumption of failure due to obscurity
Boris: animals function as pure sites of projection
Child (backyard).Chet.Annie.Boris.Kalo.Trendies
Annie > humour > desperation > pathos.edge
childlike or alternatively trapped in anxiety
sharing things; enthusiasm
isolated.alone.collector.doesn't think clearly?
suggestion of instability
features and mannerisms
real misery versus self-pity. annie versus seth ("Count Your Blessings")
she functions as a warning?
she is obscure, etc etc etc, and a kind of failure (haplessness and desperation)
special due to negative aspects rather than positive ones
art star model of studio practice:
they need to be the winner
universally celebrated
studio class as a version of american idol
dangerous and scary to think that way
seth's thinking seems to be functioning this way
aspires to fame or canonicity
Walter Benjamin
-article in illuminations. last section
statement: every work of art.masterpiece.every document of civilization is always
also at the same time a document of barbarism "ready to crush you"
"sounds oblique"
canons indicate.imply what to forget
control the stuffed animal/love the stuffed animal > perhaps parents will too
Narrative is interested in a specific syntax
why here, why now
the ending
no Kalo
mother
why this way and not any other?
Quest > object.purpose.goal to achieve
always implies transformation in the hero
changes the perception of the familiar
-different sense of success > family and domestic bliss
relief > artistic success > search for work and kalo
bringing a family closer together
kalo left cartooning for family and seth bring that element back into the family
alternation of drawings and family photos
kalo's family seth's book kalo's drawings are brought into the same level
father daughter
then
son mother
seth's father is absent
kalo's artwork for seth, traces of father for family, traffic of icons, images, objects, becomes a familial exchange
kalo functions as a proximate/surrogate father
finding a master/mentor.someone to follow
anxiety of influence (book) > Harold Bloom
takes freud and oedipus and relates it to art history
faced with the challenge of creating work that supersedes the predecessor
creating pressure through the collection of influence
Final Essay Question:
insert last year's workshop notes about Link's thoughts on writing a paper
ALEX NOTES:
researching efficiently/effectively
Determining priorities
Augmenting awareness of audience
Situation in a field
Contextualization
Recognition of newness of your ideas
Gather material selectively
Measure of reliability in it
begin broad and cloudy general idea of interest
brainstorm the ideas.
write them out
collect sentences and create paragraphs
find the theme/thesis at the conclusion*
it will present itself
Read the research work with a pen/highlighter
mark only relevant, succinct, specific, significant statements
combination of research and brainstorm ideas for categorization
*develop the thesis once you've written your first draft
a.k.a Discovery Draft
you find what you're talking about
Drafting written work:
provisional thesis (review and revise as you go)
edit and refine work from paragraph to paragraph::::
every paragraph has a point (miniature essays in themselves)
needs to connect to the rest of the work
timeline of ideas (makes linear sense)
make a claim (needs to be disputable)
what is there, that is new, that you're offering that can be argued.
draw in relevant research
supporting materials
objections
there's no point in writing about answerable questions
dialogue with the research you bring into the paper
the person reading your work is reading it to see what you have to say
and not the research itself
explain with detail and clarity why you disagree with something
clearly site sources of influence and support/disagreement
"This is what I'm going to tell you and this is why you should care."
come out with the thesis and then follow up with the essay.
BP Nichol
Sound Poetry
interruptions
disturbances
discerning pattern.meaning
{listened} Interrupted Nap > from Ear Rational
-crazy?
-seemingly hostile
-ill
-menacing?
{listened} Mischievous Eve
4 Horsemen piece
-chanting
-meditative
different kinds of nonsense
saying different things
maybe they're not nonsense
noise/news
news: inefficient, but clear
noise: communicates a great deal, lacks clarity
rational/irrational > different kinds of ways to think about crazy
models of sanity as determined by cultural ideals
-constitution of sanity/madness
-category of mental illness is fluid (changing through time and culture)
in many ways a function of power
"someone somewhere decides what's good art and what's bad art"
these poems drift in and out of crazy talk
rational > reason . irrational > unreason
-politically charged
juxtaposition of sense and lack of
what is it like, or how could it be, to go to a poetry reading
and not know it was going to be like what was heard
"it's more feeling than hearing"
-not representational
-not about stuff > experience.event.
raising questions about referentiality or reference
-no story, not even much to be about
William Carlos Williams raises ideas about poetry
-worthwhile thinking about a poem as an idea machine
-an idea generator.thought maker
-poems aren't about anything
-the is an object, it is something unto itself, there's no aboutness about it
-the poem is trying to push your ideas somewhere away from the page
start thinking about sound itself with sound poetry
when you listen to someone speaking you're not
language is always an act of translation
every language is a foreign language, you might just know some better
-these poems are an abstraction of language
animal response
a different part of the brain is functioning
"I call this one nachos with cheese."
Book > Underworld > performance art troupe >
eat this man's garbage and shit it out an stage
audio versus visual
translation versus double translation
Read the rest of the poetry in the collection
and read Neither Either Nor Or
