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The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics: M. NourbeSe Philip: "Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry"

If you are available, or can make yourself available, on Fri 12/2 from 6-8, this campus event with M. NourbeSe Philip is not to be missed. I hope to see you there. See the reblog from the CONCPO blog for more on Philip’s work.

The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics: M. NourbeSe Philip: "Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry"

Friday, Dec 02, 2016 6:00 PM—8:00 PM Location: Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn Campus

"Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry"

The M.F.A. in Writing program presents poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, and former lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip. A Fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundations and the MacDowell Colony, Philip is the recipient of many awards including the Casa de las Americas prize (Cuba). Among her best known published works are: She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence; and Harriet’s Daughter, a young adult novel. Philip’s most recent work is Zong!, a genre-breaking poem, which engages with ideas of the law, history and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.

The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series hosted by Pratt Institute with a focus on the critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.

Previous lecturers in the series, which is hosted also by Naropa Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, have included Erica Hunt, Joan Retallack, Jalal Toufic, Petah Coyne, Renee Gladman, Lisa Robertson, Judith Goldman, Dorothy Wang, Divya Victor and Simone White, Ronaldo Wilson, and Dawn Lundy Martin.

#philip

concpo

Evie Shockley on the first time she read Zong!

See also Shockley’s essay, “Is ‘Zong!’ conceptual poetry? Yes, it isn’t.”

And here’s an interview with M. NourbeSe Philip, in which she says:

Philip: I don’t so much have an ideal reader or audience in mind, but I do feel, especially with respect to Zong!, that the poem works in such a way that the reader becomes a cocreator with me. The form accomplishes that by allowing the reader certain options on how to read, and it is in the process of making choices to read that the reader becomes a cocreator. Further, I have begun to structure collective readings of Zong!, and this process extends the idea of cocreation. As I and the audience read together out loud, the work becomes a collective, communal work created by all of us.

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If you are available, or can make yourself available, on Fri 12/2 from 6-8, this campus event with M. NourbeSe Philip is not to be missed. I hope to see you there. See the reblog from the CONCPO blog for more on Philip’s work.

The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics: M. NourbeSe Philip: "Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry"

Friday, Dec 02, 2016 6:00 PM—8:00 PM Location: Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn Campus

"Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry"

The M.F.A. in Writing program presents poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, and former lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip. A Fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundations and the MacDowell Colony, Philip is the recipient of many awards including the Casa de las Americas prize (Cuba). Among her best known published works are: She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence; and Harriet’s Daughter, a young adult novel. Philip’s most recent work is Zong!, a genre-breaking poem, which engages with ideas of the law, history and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.

The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series hosted by Pratt Institute with a focus on the critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.

Previous lecturers in the series, which is hosted also by Naropa Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, have included Erica Hunt, Joan Retallack, Jalal Toufic, Petah Coyne, Renee Gladman, Lisa Robertson, Judith Goldman, Dorothy Wang, Divya Victor and Simone White, Ronaldo Wilson, and Dawn Lundy Martin.

#Philip

"This warping of scale, portraying a little piece of lint in the dimension of a major outer-space event, reflects the uncanny."

#kelley

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

In Architecture Writing at Pratt, we use Chicago style for citations. Here is our style sheet. This covers most common sources (see the link on the style sheet for further reference). However, for other sources like paintings, photographs, and sculptures, refer to Purdue OWL’s page on MLA style, and adapt those guidelines for your purposes. See link above.

#style #chicago #mla

Song as Site: Minutes Over Years

Culture writer Greil Marcus writes on the occasion of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for literature, evoking multiple temporal consciousness to think about the ways songs move through time.

#dylan #marcus

#ecopoetics

Synchronic & Diachronic Usage

Now is a great time to dig into the Oxford English Dictionary (which you have access to through your Pratt login) and the Online Etymology Dictionary to explore the historical, etymological nuances of the key terms of your emerging research. This isn’t a recommendation that you quote definitions, etc. in your writing (an often tired technique), but that a deeper awareness of the language you use will help you develop your design research writing, and will help you develop your operational lexicon.

#wordsmatter #oed #etymology

Get lost in these soundscapes.

For our exploration of the greatest ambient albums, we polled critics for their favorites, with the suggestion that “ambient” meant, in part, music that creates an environment, something like a cloud of sound, be it soothing, sad, haunting, or ominous.

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It would be helpful if there were another term—a better term, a more rigorous term—for ambient music, one that hadn’t been sullied by years’ worth of spa soundtracks and dodgy chillout compilations.

Film as Design

A note from the syllabus and addend comments that arose in review of this week’s film synthesis:

Note on synthesis derived from film diagrams: Work from structural observations in your diagrams to help you think about how the design of the film creates aesthetic and experiential effects. Films have an architecture, and we have focused on how the image-track and soundtrack, set design and sound design, along with narrative elements and themes, build the film and our experience of it. When films appear in your anno bib, think about them structurally, as designed texts embedded with ideas relating to course themes. You don’t need to summarize the film in order to do this. Dig into moments that reveal film structure and design to produce meaningful effects.

Look for moments in the film where we pause and dwell, and moments to which we return even as the action moves along. Think of it in terms of film design, where the film is a structure we pass through, rather than just a narrative vehicle that drives us along. This approach makes film more relevant in a design context.

Becoming Architecture Playlist

Here's a playlist I use sometimes in class, and also when I write at home. Intended to promote brain/sketchbook/keyboard flow. Shuffle recommended. Enjoy!

#playlist

“We often wait to reach the end-credits to see where films were made and how certain places are made to become the simulacra of others.” —Tom Conley

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night's Bad City, Iran filmed on location near Bakersfield, CA

"In its most effective instants a film causes us to perceive how our belief in the truth of being where we are, as adequate agents of what we do, can be questioned. We find ourselves immediately undone by the weightless fact that we have no reason to be where we are." —Tom Conley

#solaris #conley

This will give us examples of the montage methods Eisenstein describes, and might give you some ideas (operational techniques) for your own design research videos.

#eisenstein

A Few Motifs From Today’s Research Section

Knowledge, not certainty: As Cathryn pointed out in her lecture, design research borrows tactics from science research, but applies them to creative, intuitive, and artistic pursuits. The pursuit is knowledge rather than certainty.

Design(ed) research: As Richard summed up the design research flow you were each tracking in your presentations: Research is delivered into project, lecture, book, etc.

Structure & moment: Structural analysis can lead you to zoom in on particular moments around which to focus and organize your presentation.

Your book is your project: In the context of DP, we might think about the research book as itself a site, just as we considered several of the design research projects today in terms of book design—where the research manifests in the book, which is a designed object, a construction. The form and format are appropriate to the approach, and expressive of the concept.

Synthesize operational techniques: When you analyze research materials, look to extract operational techniques and adapt them to your purposes (your design agenda). This is the process of synthesis which you will practice as well in your annotated bibliography, one of the foundational elements of your research book.

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