writing as art + design: touch

problems

reinvent the course syllabus with class culture + your own priorities and skills in mind; develop the syllabus in any/every aspect you choose (post your link under the tab syllabi)*
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a question of color: can color carry meaning in writing (print or electronic): present 3 examples + one counter-example (post your text / link under problem 1)
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if it looks good it sounds good; if it looks interesting it sounds interesting: present 3 examples + 1 counter-example
(post your text / link under problem 2)
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less is more: present 3 examples + one counter-example (post your text / link under problem 3)
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book recommendations

Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille
Chromophobia, David Batchelor
Fig, Caroline Bergvall
Nets, Jen Bervin
Eunoia, Christian Bök
The Radicant, Nicolas Bourriaud
I Remember, Joe Brainard
The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Break It Down, Lydia Davis
The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
The Word Made Flesh, Johanna Drucker
Through Light and the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker
Lunch Poems, Frank O'Hara
My Life, Lyn Hejinian
in the belly of st paul, Karl Hyde and John Warwicker
Lines: A Brief History, Tim Ingold
Philosophy in the Flesh, George Lakoff
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, Audre Lorde
Microcosmos, Lynn Margulis
The Pillow Man, Martin McDonagh
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Haroun & the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
The World Doesn't End, Charles Simic
Bank of America Online Banking: A Critical Evaluation, Brian Kim Stefans
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne

On Longing, Susan Stewart
Pocho, José Antonio Villarreal
Leaves of Grass, Walter Whitman
The Dead Emcee Scrolls, Saul Williams
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

writing as art + design

Sunday, December 19, 2010

touch

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