Week 7:  Study Elaborations

March 19

Renee Gladman, The Ravickians (Dorothy: 2011)

Renee Gladman, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (Dorothy: 2013) 
Books are in Thorp (in McCosh). Since these arrived late, don’t worry about reading before class. 

Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, “Who Touched Me?” (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution: 2016)

Evie Shockley, “On Seeing and Reading the ‘Nothing’: Poetry and Blackness Visualized,” New Literary History (2019)

Sampada Aranke, “Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility,” e-flux (2017)


Film program for class:

• Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka, 2018), 11 min
• Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (Cauleen Smith, 1992), 6 min
• We hold where study (Wu Tsang, 2019), 19 min
• An Ecstatic Experience (Ja’Tovia Gary, 2015), 6 min

Additional films we may watch selections of:

• Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes (Barbara McCullough, 1979)
• Mi aporte (Sara Gómez, 1972)
• Die Umschulung (Harun Farocki, 1994)
• Love is the Message, The Message is Death (Arthur Jafa, 2013)

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We will look at these books together in class:

Renee Gladman, Prose Architectures (Wave Books: 2017), One Long Black Sentence (Image Text Ithaca: 2020),  Plans for Sentences (Wave Books: 2022)

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, No New Theories (Printed Matter: 2019)

Feel free to bring or suggest others!




Additional Gladman:

• Haus Red vol. 2 (2019) -- a companion compiliation focused on The Ravickians
  
• “Renee Gladman in Conversation with Fred Moten,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  
• “Renee Gladman in Conversation with Miri Karraker,” Poetry Project (2022)
  
• Zoë Hopkins, “Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude,” Brooklyn Rail (2023)
  
• John Vincler, “Dwelling Places: On Renee Gladman’s Turn to Drawing” The Paris Review (2019)
  

Additional:

Shatema Threadcraft, The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy (Oxford: 2025)

Sandra Ruiz, Left Turns in Brown Study (Duke University Press: 2024)

Films:

• Cauleen Smith, dir. Sojourner (2018)
  
• Wu Tsang, dir. We Hold Where Study (2017)
  
• Sara Gómez, dir. Mi Aporte (1969)
  
• Steffani Jemison videos
  
• Harun Farocki, Die Umschulung (1994)
  
• Nicolas Philibert, Être et Avoir  (2002)