I missed class today :( many MANY thanks to the following:
Chris: Hash for january 30
Kari: Much ground traversed today
Lisa: 5 Canons of Rhetoric
Nick: Link Between Oral Culture and Free-Style Rap
Zach: Connections
16 years ago
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Housekeeping
from Marilynne Robinson's extraordinary novel Housekeeping, p. 194:
There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse them and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs out of all these sorrows and sit on porches and sing them on mild evenings. Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all the same.
Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
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There is remembrance, and communion, altogether human and unhallowed. For families will not be broken. Curse them and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs out of all these sorrows and sit on porches and sing them on mild evenings. Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all the same.
Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Sutter, Sexson, Solitude, Solidarity ...
So much happens every day!
to Sutter: as you suspected, I was in fact glued to technology all day Inauguration Day (online, C-Span, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, even Fox! for demented dittohead factor) ... brief interludes of walking around the back yard in the windy cold to grok what was happening (a friend said she "kept feeling like Europe must have felt at the end of WWII as their countries were liberated by the Allies" :) ...
and remembering:
1960
JFK Inaugural I was ten
1963
June Medgar Evers assassination he was my father's age
September Birmingham bombings I was their age
November JFK assassination I cried in the cloakroom and a classmate laughed at me
1964
June Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner the laughing men who murdered them haunt me to this day
1965
February Malcolm X assassination
1967
October Che assassination
1968
April MLK assassination
June RFK assassination
August Chicago
1969
December Draft lottery
Fred Hampton assassination I had just met him
1970
May Kent State
1972
McGovern/Nixon my first vote
1973
September 11 Salvador Allende
September 23 Pablo Neruda
1980
December 8 John Lennon
.
.
.
i fell in love ... a daughter and a son
.
.
.
1999
my father died
2000
Gore/Bush
2001
September 9/11 I was getting ready for work
October 12-26 Patriot Act
2002
Paul Wellstone former professor
2003
Invasion of Iraq
2006
my lover, the father of my children, died
2007
obama
i return to college
2008
obama
Unjust Deserts
by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
to Sutter: as you suspected, I was in fact glued to technology all day Inauguration Day (online, C-Span, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, even Fox! for demented dittohead factor) ... brief interludes of walking around the back yard in the windy cold to grok what was happening (a friend said she "kept feeling like Europe must have felt at the end of WWII as their countries were liberated by the Allies" :) ...
and remembering:
1960
JFK Inaugural I was ten
1963
June Medgar Evers assassination he was my father's age
September Birmingham bombings I was their age
November JFK assassination I cried in the cloakroom and a classmate laughed at me
1964
June Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner the laughing men who murdered them haunt me to this day
1965
February Malcolm X assassination
1967
October Che assassination
1968
April MLK assassination
June RFK assassination
August Chicago
1969
December Draft lottery
Fred Hampton assassination I had just met him
1970
May Kent State
1972
McGovern/Nixon my first vote
1973
September 11 Salvador Allende
September 23 Pablo Neruda
1980
December 8 John Lennon
.
.
.
i fell in love ... a daughter and a son
.
.
.
1999
my father died
2000
Gore/Bush
2001
September 9/11 I was getting ready for work
October 12-26 Patriot Act
2002
Paul Wellstone former professor
2003
Invasion of Iraq
2006
my lover, the father of my children, died
2007
obama
i return to college
2008
obama
Unjust Deserts
by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
notes 01.28.2009
Patrick H. Hutton: History as an Art of Memory
Dominic O’Brien: Learn to Remember
Dame Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Dame Yates: Theatre of the World
remember 50 discreet items, not verse or performance
theatres as memory palaces
marginal/underground history
the occult -- the practical
the interior
things you’ll need to know for the test (use the unusual):
Erin and liberal studies
system of locations -- 9 items
Coleridge: 30 days hath September -- metrical form
iambic pentameter
cabinet of curiosity -- cure, care
Kane
32 myth, poor remembrance
41 oak and ash -- Moon East increase West rest
Yates
4 heightened sight -- Ulysses ch 3 “ineluctable modality of the visible”
p.11 ram’s testicles -- testify, testimony, tests
Sexson “it’s all poetry in the oral world”
Dominic O’Brien: Learn to Remember
Dame Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Dame Yates: Theatre of the World
remember 50 discreet items, not verse or performance
theatres as memory palaces
marginal/underground history
the occult -- the practical
the interior
things you’ll need to know for the test (use the unusual):
- cooler -- plastic, blue, white lid, ice inside 2 feet wide
- Nay b-day
- Sutter’s Melpomene -- Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate
- Michael Sexson’s blood drive date -- March 17 St Patrick’s, green blood
Erin and liberal studies
system of locations -- 9 items
- thermostat
- blackboard
- projector screen
- quiet desk
- overhead projector
- old desk
- bulletin board
- snowman 3 push pins
- weird symbol F 7 pushpin
Coleridge: 30 days hath September -- metrical form
iambic pentameter
cabinet of curiosity -- cure, care
Kane
32 myth, poor remembrance
41 oak and ash -- Moon East increase West rest
Yates
4 heightened sight -- Ulysses ch 3 “ineluctable modality of the visible”
p.11 ram’s testicles -- testify, testimony, tests
Sexson “it’s all poetry in the oral world”
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
provocations
Kane ...............................................................................
33 “tell”ings from nature semi-wild, paths
34 Myths in their original form -- it was a form very much like improvised music -- opened their tellers to the proper subject of myth. The proper subject of myth is the ideas and emotions of the earth.
38 frog-sweat
39 Myths are repositories of practical wisdom
40 foretelling
41 Nature is full of these patterns (information theorists call them "redundancies") [...] these overlapping patterns are the sites for myths and proverbs.
45 ... ecological patterns which elude, or should elude, human manipulation, and are therefore coded as sacred.
189 when people talk, they dance w/ one another
191 “before coming to life in music, the fugue or sonata already existed in myth” Levi-Strauss
Ong ...............................................................................
11 Written words are residue. Oral tradition [not] ...When an oft-told story is not being told, all that exists is the potential in certain humans to tell it. We are … so resolutely literate … such "monstrous concepts as oral literature”
12 Writing is “preemptive and imperialist” "the horse as wheel-less auto”
text~weave rhapsody to stitch songs together
13 Frye -- epos vox voice
14 literacy -- dictionaries, grammar, punctuation
32 "... sound has a special relationship to time ..."
Yates ...............................................................................
8-9 Cicero “memory is the firm perception in the soul of things and words"
10 in invention nature is never last, education never first
11 ram’s testicles
16 the awe inspiring ability to recite backwards ... Pointless though they may seem to us, the illustrate the respect of antiquity
29 Simonides: 1) pay attention 2) repeat what you hear 3) place it
32 Aristotle: perception thought
35-6 Aristotle, Plato, Socrates WAX
37 Phaedrus the soul's true knowledge consists in recollection of Ideas
...............................................................................
I don't have it memorized, but I know it.
...............................................................................
33 “tell”ings from nature semi-wild, paths
34 Myths in their original form -- it was a form very much like improvised music -- opened their tellers to the proper subject of myth. The proper subject of myth is the ideas and emotions of the earth.
38 frog-sweat
39 Myths are repositories of practical wisdom
40 foretelling
41 Nature is full of these patterns (information theorists call them "redundancies") [...] these overlapping patterns are the sites for myths and proverbs.
45 ... ecological patterns which elude, or should elude, human manipulation, and are therefore coded as sacred.
189 when people talk, they dance w/ one another
191 “before coming to life in music, the fugue or sonata already existed in myth” Levi-Strauss
Ong ...............................................................................
11 Written words are residue. Oral tradition [not] ...When an oft-told story is not being told, all that exists is the potential in certain humans to tell it. We are … so resolutely literate … such "monstrous concepts as oral literature”
12 Writing is “preemptive and imperialist” "the horse as wheel-less auto”
text~weave rhapsody to stitch songs together
13 Frye -- epos vox voice
14 literacy -- dictionaries, grammar, punctuation
32 "... sound has a special relationship to time ..."
Yates ...............................................................................
8-9 Cicero “memory is the firm perception in the soul of things and words"
10 in invention nature is never last, education never first
11 ram’s testicles
16 the awe inspiring ability to recite backwards ... Pointless though they may seem to us, the illustrate the respect of antiquity
29 Simonides: 1) pay attention 2) repeat what you hear 3) place it
32 Aristotle: perception
35-6 Aristotle, Plato, Socrates WAX
37 Phaedrus the soul's true knowledge consists in recollection of Ideas
...............................................................................
I don't have it memorized, but I know it.
...............................................................................
suggested by Michael Sexson
two fascinating pieces
- The Chronicle Review: The End of Solitude
- The NY Review of Books: Google & the Future of Books
Monday, January 26, 2009
notes 01.26.2009
assignments:
- the page # of the most provocative thing in each book
- be an architect, build a flexible memory theatre w/ at least 100 places
- MS: 2CETmup
- Sutte: garage to back bedroom
- Tai: synagogue, sanctuary thereof
sacred <--> practical
the liberal arts: education proper to a freeman (Latin: liber) as opposed to a slave
* the Triviumor: G GRAMLAD
1. grammar
2. rhetoric
3. logic
* the Quadrivium
4. geometry
5. arithmetic
6. music
7. astronomy
Cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkammer)
"encyclopedic collections, ... precursors to museums"
Bruno , burned at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition in 1600 (Hamlet in London)
More recent assessments, beginning with the pioneering work of Frances Yates, suggest that Bruno was deeply influenced by magical views of the universe inherited from Arab astrological magic, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Hermeticism.The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence
The Gallery of Memory by Lina Bolzoni
The Alphabet versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
You Bet Your Life, 1950-61, Groucho Marx
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