Invention: Para-doxa

“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function more like music than like concepts.” (91)

“…bring directly into the invention process the metaphor for research that has been the unacknowledged support of a certain feeling of thought. What is this feeling–the one guiding the judgments upon which invention depends?” (169)

— Gregory L. Ulmer, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention

M 13-Apr
Read / review: Apparatus shift: table/summary (Ulmer).

Read / review: excerpts from Ulmer about Mystory (PDF on e-learning).

Due: extra credit work for Response 6
        (e.g. response to classmate’s entry; analytic response to Slaughterhouse Five)

W 15-Apr      Vollman: “Red Hands” (3233-9)

Read: Ulmer’s blog, “Heuretics”
    —“browse around,” navigating the pages, tags, and/or categories; or in reverse-chrono.

Relevant / related (potential contrast/lesson?):

“Facebook fans do worse in exams.” (Leake and Warren) The Times 12-Apr 2009.

// “Does Facebook Lower Academic Performance? It’s Still Too Soon to Say.”
(Jefferey R. Young) Chronicle: Wired Campus. 13-Apr 2009

F 17-Apr     Spiegelman: excerpt from Maus (3091-3108
        & Optional — Carver: “Cathedral” (2828-38)
        Due: any remaining extra credit work (e.g. analysis of “blogging the disaster” project)

M 20-Apr     Due: Mystory Project