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It’s about how we learn and how we see the world. In class we’ll play/think/learn, encourage
experimentation and different ways of processing information/approaching life. Maybe it’s a
course about approaches, about knocking your head slightly sideways so you can look at the
world askance.
There’s only one week with reading. Class meets every other week.
It’s concerned with inflecting the everyday to spiral out, including out of control – hence
somatically oriented activities. The syllabus is a suggestion, not a mandate. No experience
needed, all are welcome. Limited to 8.
Meet, discuss, focus future sessions as participants desire. Consider the Arab revolutions.
What makes people stop accepting? What is the quality of action undertaken in a revolution,
when order is in flux – how do people decide what to do without rules? What state of mind is
that, and what relation does it bear to our everyday?
Task: Visit a place you know well. Walk in it as if you were there for the first time. Record
your interpretations, challenges, fun/cool/boring/dumb experiences. Focus on sight and the
body (do you tense differently if you walk as if it were new?). Bring questions.
Week 3 | sound
Discuss last week’s task.
Activity: Paint sound. Bring your laptops if Mac. We will explore Metasynth 5, a sound editing
engine used in The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, and by Aphex Twin. Check out AT’s video
Window Licker – audio engineered in Metasynth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJeiRVnlu8 (3m54s is where the epic begins, but I
advocate watching the whole thing).
Task: Trace a sound. This may take any form you wish.
Week 4 | drugs
Discuss last week’s task.
“It is a sign of the very bright and friendly character of the intoxication that the subject’s
pleasurable relation to his own existence does not manifest itself here, as it usually does, in
arrogance and distance” (On Hashish, Walter Benjamin, 73).
Activity: Dose.
Consider: what is a drug? A drug is an output modifier, an input that modifies outputs.
Consider: all inputs modify output.
Consider: all inputs are inputs. Anything, all of it. It’s all input. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be
there (to be there is to be input).
Consider: What do I output? I output myself. I am the production of a process that produces
actions that typify me.
Coordinates
Instructor
Bobo Bose-Kolanu
bose@fas.harvard.edu
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defined by a smaller degree of locationality, though they can have higher degrees of
mobility – as is the case with borders. Goods travel. People are illegal.