Chris Kraus - Lectures / Workshops / Seminars

PERFORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY: Writing as Reportage (3 credits)

Chris Kraus

Description: This course is designed to focus on creativity and the hidden treasures within literature. We will do group writing exercises and work through both the practical and creative components of writing. As we move through the sphere of creativity we will embrace the dirty areas of the creative process. Through a brave approach that takes no prisoners the course will push students to new perspectives and modes of being.

Objectives: Students shall leave this course with a new appreciation for literature and an expanded definition of what literature is and can be. We will engage writing and thinking with an open mind and the course will grow in different directions depending on what the students bring to the course. Students will be expected to bring their own work to the course as well as an open mind.

Required Readings:

Kraus, Chris. I Love Dick. Semiotexte. January 1, 1998. Paperback, 282 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1570270465. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Reissued in Semiotexte/MIT Press Critical Edition. 2007. ISBN: 1584350342. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Myles, Eileen. The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. Semiotext(e). 2009. Paperback, 368 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1584350660. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Myles, Eileen. "The Recorded Century," an unpublished essay. 1999.

Taia, Abdellah. "The Rule of I." in: Tel Quel. 2007.

"Jenih to Genet," a story by Abdellah Taia from his story collection Mon Maroc in: Animal Shelter: Art, Sex and Literature, Issue 1. Semiotext(e). 2008. Paperback, Language English, ISBN: 158435075X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

"M as in Maladie," transcription of Deleuze A-Z videotape segment, by Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet.

"The Order," transcription of 1979 documentary film about a Greek leper colony by Jean-Daniel Pollet.

Richardson, Dorothy. "The Tunnel, (chapters 1 and 3)" in: Pilgrimage Volume . Virago Press, 2002. Paperback, 456 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0860681017. Perec, Georges and John Sturrock (Editor, Translator, Introduction). Species of Space and Other Pieces. Penguin. 2008. Paperback, 320 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0141442247. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.