Class discussion notes 3/2/07
Guided by the following, we read and responded as a group to the first of the open letters.
Read for promise. Think of today's workshop as a forum for moving or translating the open letters to a wider audience. Fundamental questions are 1) the necessity of the work or why bother? 2) how to claim the voice already present to take up the challenge of "public intellectual"?
A. For you, what is the most surprising or compelling insight (idea, word, turn of the phrase, or section - it might be something implicit but not "flat out said")? And why? What more do you want to hear?
B. For you, what could be edited, jettisoned or saved for a separate project?
[For the author, in response, think about what you are willing to give up. How might you defend, seduce, justify or provoke your audience to engage with your concern if you think it worth keeping.]
C. Other comments
Learning Is A Public Art Sourcebook Spring 2007: Introduction and the Open Letter 1/19/07
