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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Response 32 - No More No Less
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...
Response 30 - Not waving but diffracting
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...
Task 31 - You don't say
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...
Response 28 - 28 times 28
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...
Task 29 - A High-Frequency Ritual
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...
Response 26 - A Path of Greater Resistance
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...
Task 27 - Don't You Wonder Sometimes
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...
Response 24 - White Family Holiday
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...
Task 25 - Benspænd or Proust
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...