SAHT2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juliana Huxtable, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
25 May 2018
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WEEK 1
Cultures of reading and writing
• What is writing as practice?
o Argues that writing itself is an art practice
o Aimed to facilitate critical, conceptual experimental and creative modes of
reading/writing
o Reflects ongoing and emerging relationship between contemporary writing and art
practices
o Somewhere between theory and a studio - argues that theory is practice
• Writing as practice is not (simply) art writing, art criticism, creative writing and/or literary
studies
• Juliana Huxtable, Untitled (Causal Power), 2015
• Ulysses by James Joyce, 2012
• Think about textuality as a process
• Having a Coke With You by Frank O'Hara
• We live in a post-digital moment
o The internet and digital systems are at once historical and contemporary
• already historicised* yet conditioning our everyday life in the present
o *i.e. the previous aesthetics of the web
o There is a nostalgic awareness
• On Anne Boyer's Not Writing
o In Not Writing, Boyer challenges the idea of 'high' reading and writing 'culture' as she is,
herself, a working class woman, a single mother and an outsider, to said cultures. She
outlines the forces that stop her from writing, or making writing difficult -- if not
impossible. Boyer cleverly uses this piece as a written defiance to literary 'gatekeepers,'
by not bowing her head and continuing to stubbornly write. She outlines that majority of
the time, to write is to not-write.
• From Astrid:
o Anne Boyer reminds us that most of time, writing involves not-writing. I think she means
this in two ways: first, there is so much that informs writing that is not writing itself –
thikig, talkig, eatig, sleepig, workig; seod, whe were atuall writig, were
constantly making decisions about what and how to write, each decision is about what
to ilude ad elude, what to keep ad what to edit out. Ad ae theres a third
wa, too: that the thigs we dot write are iportat, too – thigs we at write
eause we lak support, resoures ad aess; thigs we wot write because they
dot elog to us; thigs we at write eause were sared; thigs we shouldt
write, and so on.
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Document Summary
In not writing, boyer challenges the idea of "high" reading and writing "culture" as she is, herself, a working class woman, a single mother and an outsider, to said cultures. She outlines the forces that stop her from writing, or making writing difficult -- if not impossible. Boyer cleverly uses this piece as a written defiance to literary "gatekeepers," by not bowing her head and continuing to stubbornly write. She outlines that majority of the time, to write is to not-write. From astrid: anne boyer reminds us that most of time, writing involves not-writing.
