Agenda:
1) Discussion of projects as heuristic (generative practices): project, the most interesting term of all. I see in "project" a compelling set of problems and the urge to organize and undertake a developing argument that propels one into a certain environment and requires the cultivation that Johnson discusses. I think Johnson has it wrong when he talks of inventions as the culmination of one man's work (and the germination of another's) -- or at least it's incomplete. A good project will elicit and direct thinking into new forms of the "adjunct possible," making a sinuous path that you, the writer, really can't predict. In fact, that is maybe the most valuable thing about a project: it is unpredictable. It requires the writer to hit the "sweet spot" between control and passivity, the same sort of stance that a skier or biker has to develop. New drivers, for instance, tend to oversteer; experienced drivers "feel the road" through the car and pay attention, but not too much attention, to what they are doing.
2) Go to the Steven Johnson page at https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nxRkdnLX6nqmEWx0TYq1F1oHDHTBXo2mgTxSPbd-4w/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKH6-58B
3) Go to the Project in Process page: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mes-SVr0DA61ByCfjCJmkt6SKeVahNYrYhk1zjJVamM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPz6x4IL
4) Go back to the Johnson page again and develop your commentary under your section and other people's sections
5) Go back to the Projects in Process page and develop your commentary about two other people's projects
6) Add in at least two more thoughtful comments on each page before the next class. We will be reading and commenting out of these for that class.
7) For Thursday, please bring the Fish book and the Bell books. Thursday is very much about sentences.
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