Week 11: Methods
April 16
Arthur Jafa, “Sequencing the Notes” (dir. Jurrell Lewis) (2025)
Katherine McKittrick, “Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered About the Floor),” in Dear Science and Other Stories (2021)
Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library” (1931), trans. Harry Zohn
Tina M. Campt, “Introduction” and “Haptic Temporalities,” in Listening to Images (Duke University Press: 2017)
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome. Women, and Queer Radicals (AK Press: 2020) (selection)
Christina Sharpe, “Beauty Is a Method,” e-flux (2019)
Melody Jue, “Underwater Museums: Diving as Method” in Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater (Duke University Press: 2020) [Photos + Notes]
“Swamp Pedagogy”
Re-visit:
Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change (1990) (re-read a few sections)
**Please email me two passages you'd be interested in thinking about with the group by Wednesday at 5pm as well as a short prompt (a writing prompt á la Bernadette Mayer, a pedagogical prompt, a discussion prompt, etc.) that invites some way of engaging and activating the week's materials.
Projects:
Additional:
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen and Alex Moulton, “Toward ‘Fugitivity as Method’: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies (2023)
Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Duke: 2003)
April 16
Arthur Jafa, “Sequencing the Notes” (dir. Jurrell Lewis) (2025)
Katherine McKittrick, “Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered About the Floor),” in Dear Science and Other Stories (2021)
Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library” (1931), trans. Harry Zohn
Tina M. Campt, “Introduction” and “Haptic Temporalities,” in Listening to Images (Duke University Press: 2017)
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome. Women, and Queer Radicals (AK Press: 2020) (selection)
Christina Sharpe, “Beauty Is a Method,” e-flux (2019)
Melody Jue, “Underwater Museums: Diving as Method” in Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater (Duke University Press: 2020) [Photos + Notes]
“Swamp Pedagogy”
Re-visit:
Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change (1990) (re-read a few sections)
**Please email me two passages you'd be interested in thinking about with the group by Wednesday at 5pm as well as a short prompt (a writing prompt á la Bernadette Mayer, a pedagogical prompt, a discussion prompt, etc.) that invites some way of engaging and activating the week's materials.
Projects:
Additional:
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen and Alex Moulton, “Toward ‘Fugitivity as Method’: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies (2023)
Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Duke: 2003)