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EDUCATION I

EDUCATION I. from My Life and Loves (Harris) “La Batarde ” The Piano Teacher. Frank Harris (1856-1931) Welsh parents born in Ireland immigrates to America returns to Europe settles in London mostly remembered for My Life and Loves. Frank does learning: he’s action, physical.

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EDUCATION I

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  1. EDUCATION I • from My Life and Loves (Harris) • “La Batarde” • The Piano Teacher

  2. Frank Harris (1856-1931) Welsh parents born in Ireland immigrates to America returns to Europe settles in London mostly remembered for My Life and Loves

  3. Frank does learning: he’s action, physical nice “sword”

  4. Frank does learning: he’s action, physical she’s intellect, talk nice “cigarette”

  5. Frank does learning part II vagina = mouth tongue = penis (?!) natural v. learning – he is learning, but repeatedly says “naturally” he talks of her “yielding” to him but he is the one yielding subtle reversal of power, pleasure, control reward is in the future (which he knows about)

  6. Term Paper~800 words | 25% | Due 4 April

  7. Term Paper~800 words | 25% | Due 4 April • Resources for making posters: • http://xrds.acm.org/resources/how-to-write-research-poster.cfm • LaTeX • Gimp • Open Office • Resources for making movies: • Plotagon • Wideo • Lightscribe • GoAnimate • Dvolver • Voki • DigitalFilms

  8. from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72) • Leduc is French • abandoned by parents • raised by grandmother • Simone de Beauvoir • The Second Sex • writes autobiography • Surrealist, poetic • really gorgeous writing

  9. Surrealism (refresher) • founded in Paris between WWI and WWII • focus on the unconscious, dreams, the occult • belief that the conscious mind keeps us from the truth • automatic writing, exquisite corpse game, ouja boards • drugs, séances, altered states of consciousness • juxtaposing ordinary items to make the everyday superreal • the chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on an operating table • Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Max Ernst, Giorgio di Chirico, Man Ray, Paul Eluard, Michel Leiris, &c. &c. • aim is to discover the truth that is hidden from us by civilization, consciousness, prudery

  10. from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72) • this episode is set in a girls’ boarding school typical boarding school girls

  11. from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72) • seasons | temperatures | flowers • topography | rooms | enclosures • temporality | spatiality | waves | light/dark • love and annihilation  the earth falls away, time stops • the art of suggestion, hint, delay, evasion • dreamlike | surreal • surreptitious | dangerous | risky • the affective underbelly of education • the erotics of instruction and of the physical in learning • the body, sensuality, arousal, response • discipline, monitor || indulgence, anonymity • push-pull | attract-repulse | seduce-assault

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