Logic & The Unconscious Exercises

Three writing exercises meant to compliment the three lectures of this class, exploring writing with constraints, revising by expanding on your own ideas, and foundations of a new text

Below I have included the writing exercises intended to accompany each of the three main lectures in my L&E class. Enjoy!

Assignment 1 - Generation

(Lectures Part 1, Part 2)

For your first assignment this week I’d like to ask you to write a text based on a frame you will construct based on some of the ideas in this week’s lecture. The constraints you set your for yourself for the text can be as specific or as loose as you want, and you may steal them from another work (such as using an Oulipian model) or devise your own. I’d also like you to concurrently keep a small journal or blog about what you eat/read/listen to/watch/attend, or otherwise where you go to write, who you see or speak to before hand, things you curate to affect your understanding before, during, and after the period of writing. You won’t need to show the notes to anyone other than yourself, but I’ve found that manually writing them down and even thinking about them a bit in fragments can help you recognize how their influence might best be utilized.