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course evaluations

open publication workshop

annotation discussion

portfolio discussion

final thoughts: unsettled attention

for next time

Consider: scheduling a conference with instructor (open times Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Consider: Workshop Opportunity

Submit: Annotated Journal on Monday, May 14 (9:00-11:00a.m) (ADJ 232)

Submit: Publication Portfolio on Monday, May 14 (it's live & online)

#agenda

unsettled attention (a final thought)

#unsettled attention #mini-lecture #read

Designing the more than human is a little bit like playing pool. The balls on the table are a topology, a network of sequenced relationships. There is no single target at which to aim but rather a stretchy network of hard and absorptive surfaces. The player who sees only one fixed sequence will sink fewer balls, reduce the potentials of the table, and lose. Rarely are the cue ball and its target geometrically aligned with the hole, so the majority of shots involve the expertise of indirect contact and ricochet. The game is played like a chain reaction with multiple branching possibilities that change after every shot. And yet with every shot, the most constructive thing that can be done is to increase the chances for more shots—generate more branches in the network of possibilities, more information. There is no need to call each shot, and it is better to keep the spectators guessing. Then there is also the matter of touch, which can’t easily be described, but only understood by doing it. Pool is only a reminder of all the things that can change when a body, with all of its sentience and force fields, brushes against the air. It can be a matter of deliberate speed and impact, coming from hands through the cue stick and out to the ball. But sometimes it is a matter of English—the spin placed on the cue ball that is later transferred to another. English is an advanced technique that can’t be predicted, but it can be exploited. It is less about the intention of the shooter and more about something between the moving solids outside the human skin. The player who can continue to set up potentials and options can play the table longer. It is something like being too smart to be right.

Keller Easterling, "No You're Not"

#the end #unsettled attention #read

workshop opportunity

Inkwell (English Club) hosts a chance to workshop your final papers TODAY, from 5:30-6:30 pm in ADJ 142. The workshop will be led by our department's Research Intensive (RIE) students.

Do you have a final paper to write in one of your English classes? Are you looking to learn best practices for writing a literary research paper? Do you want another set of eyes on your draft? If so, this is the workshop for you!

"Craft of Writing: Academic Research Papers" will offer participants an overview of best practices and provide a workshop for students working on final papers in their English classes. Please bring your draft papers to receive feedback from your RIE peers!

open office hours

Next week, as you work to revise your previous publications, compose your final publication, annotate your journal, and publish your portfolio, consider scheduling a conference with me. I will be in and around my office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00a.m.-4:30p.m.

#agenda #conferences

portfolio basics

Your portfolio does not need to be overly complex. It’s a place to share your work. That said, to effectively share your work you need to provide a framework through which readers can make sense of that work. Provide pieces a short introduction, which can be as short as a sentence or two (as I have done in my sample portfolio). Additionally, I would like you to include, as part of this introduction, a brief description of the audience you had mind while writing the piece as well as a venue you think would be a good home of the piece. Communicate to your audience how you see this piece fitting into a larger conversation.

#portfolio #agenda

assembled attention

#intuitive attention #assembled attention #attention assembled #watch #the intuitionist

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some notes on The Intuitionist

open publication workshop

annotation discussion

for next time

Remember: Post Final Paper Proposals

E/E: Portfolio Prep

Prepare: Workshop

Read (optional): Keller Easterling, “No You’re Not”

#agenda

annotating journals

I have asked (and sometimes yelled at) you to leave the smaller, left-hand column blank as you journaled your way though the course. Now, you will use the previously blank left-hand column to do this annotative work, which will, in short, guide my reading of it. These annotations will help me attend to the work that you did and that you have come to find particularly telling or compelling. I will be assessing your journal in terms of how well it demonstrates your ability to think across the readings: to find unifying themes, to pose meaningful and interesting questions, and to critique positions, including your own.

In addition to these annotations, strongly consider other organizational and design schemes to help me follow you through your journal: think binder dividers and/or splash pages. In short, think about entire presentation of the journal as an artifact of your important work this semester.

Along with the journal, you will hand in a typed-up 500-word “cover letter”—a short reflective essay explaining to me why you’ve chosen the pieces you’ve chosen, how you think they fit together, and what you have learned and might later from them. This can be informally written; the point is to direct my attention to features of the journal you think are important.

#agenda #journals #annotation

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nonhuman attention

revision workshop

for next time

Share: Pet Pictures

Read*: Whitehead, Colson. The Intuitionist

Read: Sousanis, Nick. “The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some” (from Unﬂattening)

Prepare: Final Paper Proposals

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pet pictures

Maddie Hellebush and Biff Rankin are currently running our social media accounts. They have asked that you share, if your willing able, pictures of your pets for a series of posts on nonhuman attention. Email your adorable pet pictures to [email protected].

#nonhuman attention