Task 33 - The Philologist's Objection
Alan writes: I recently had an exchange of mails with my mentor and friend Zyg Barański, who supervised my PhD. Zyg had been kind enough...
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Alan writes: I recently had an exchange of mails with my mentor and friend Zyg Barański, who supervised my PhD. Zyg had been kind enough...
Dear Marie, Funny that, with this task, you should identify a distinction or opposition that has been a theme in my reading and thinking about...
Dear Marie, Thanks a bunch of chocolate eggs for this task. Yes, I took Karen Barad’s famous book Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007) on holidays to...
Alan writes: Given: I read somewhere about a technique used by the great dramatist Bertolt Brecht to make sense of perplexing contemporary events. Confronted with the...
1. Poor/Scholar You write: ‘You spent some of your youth poor in London: think about the contrast between the you then and the salaried academic...
Alan writes: You’re pregnant! We are comfortable announcing this only because of a specific technology and the expertise of the person who deploys it. We...
Dear Marie, I’m glad you returned in this task to the question of how we each differently think about art. In this task, I was...
Alan writes: Continuing with the theme of negotiating our different attitudes to art and process, this week your task is to respond to a piece...
Dear Marie, Thank you for Task 24. Here’s the requested scrapbook of our family skiing holiday in Norway, overdue but still undercooked because I caught...
Alan writes: For this week's task I hesitated between setting something fun or setting something that would obstruct your poetics. I've decided to let you...