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Computation

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Spectacle, Presence & Poetry

Teachers

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Margot Armbruster

Guests

Katherine Duckworth

Date

Section 1: September 15, 2024 to October 13, 2024
Section 2: September 18, 2024 to October 16, 2024
(5 classes)

Time

Section 1: Sundays, 3-6pm ET Section 2: Wednesdays, 11am-2pm ET

Location

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Cost

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Deadline

Applications closed on August 4, 2024

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“Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society's unreality.” —Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord “Poetry isn’t revolutionary practice; poetry provides a way to inhabit revolutionary practice, to ground ourselves in our relations to ourselves and each other, to think about an unevenly miserable world and to spit in its face. We believe that poetry can do things that theory can’t, that poetry leaps into what theory tends towards. We think that poetry conjoins and extends the interventions that trans people make into our lives and bodily presence in the world, which always have an aesthetic dimension. We assert that poetry should be an activity by and for everybody.” —We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel Presence, the root system of accountability and reflection, is both an internal and relational practice, informed by the constant fluctuations of our day-to-day experience. The mundanity of one (logging into Instagram, for example) is inexplicably tied to the multifaceted and globalized oppression of millions more (Congolese cobalt miners). How can poetry and the tenets of radical and experimental poetic expression help us remain present in the face of concurrent global violations against life? And how is poetry useful in accosting the manipulation of language towards capitalistic ends? Participants are encouraged to keep a daily analog journal throughout the five-week class, an exercise meant to foster a daily reflective practice while simultaneously mapping the connectivity of the participant’s internal world to various social movements. Weekly readings, discussions and writing prompts will focus on themes such as labor, environmental (in)justice, land rights and extraction, gender liberation and more.

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On making our own language

Course of Study

Introductions: Who are we? Who are you? What is this class? How would we like to expand our understanding of relational presence through writing?

Journaling and the Possibilities of the Epistolary Form: How can daily journaling become a somatic experience? What are the benefits and difficulties in being a witness to our own lives? How can we use the epistolary form as a tool toward presence and relationality?

On Lyricism, Dissociation and Subjugation in Language & Media: How has language been commodified and how are words used against us? How is language co-opted by the ruling class to subjugate the imagination? How do we rehabilitate and recontextualize our relationship to language?

Reflections in Inhabiting Revolutionary Practice: How are the skills we are learning helping or failing us? What works and what does not? What have you noticed about your own writing practice? How and where is this class showing up in your life and communities?

Sharing Toward Vulnerability: Final writing project* is due. Participants will be asked to share their final project with the class as a gesture toward the power of vulnerability in intentional, public space <3

Final writing projects can take on any form or medium. The only requirement is the final project was conceived and/or inspired by writing done in our 5 weeks together.

Expectations

Time & Workload

Participants are expected to maintain a daily journal and spend at least 1 hour outside of class on readings or any relevant assignments/prompts.

This class will culminate with individual final writing projects. The projects can take on any form or medium. The only requirement is the project was conceived and/or inspired by writing done during class.

Learning Outcomes

By taking this class, you can expect to:

Gain an expanded idea of what poetry is and can be.

Cultivate a deeper relationship to revolutionary practice in your daily private life through writing.

Find a place to witness, name and experiment with your own feelings and observations about the world around you.

Obtain a more conscientious understanding of how we are passively engaging with and violently co-opting the language around us.

Is this class for me?

This class may be for you if:

You want to start (and maintain!) an analog journaling practice.

You are having a hard time keeping track of or articulating how you are feeling from day to day, leading to major dissociation.

You love reading and writing, but aren’t sure if you’re a “writer.”

You have non-traditional learning experiences or faced systemic barriers to higher education.

You are interested in sharing ideas and parallel play.

You want to experiment with radical poetic concepts.

Meet the Teachers & Guests

teacher Gabrielle Octavia Rucker: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a poetic practitioner, writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes currently living on the Gulf Coast. Their work reflects on the complexities of inheriting not only only the unfinished business of past generations but also the silent, often overlooked burdens, such as languages and histories lost to colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. A poet of Black American and Mexican descent, Rucker uses explorative, ritual poetics and asemic writing—a form of wordless script that suggests meaning without linguistic structure—to transcend the constraints of English, a language that is both violent (forced upon her) and limiting (not their mother tongue) in its ability to fully express their poetic intent. Their work considers the dormant and unsayable, reanimating the intangible elements that shape one’s capacity for and understanding of legibility, myth, inheritance and ritual. Rucker is a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow, a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and the founder of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically inclined. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction (2022) is currently available via The Song Cave.

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teacher Margot Armbruster: Margot Armbruster is a writer, editor, educator, and SFPC alum based in Brooklyn. Margot has worked as a researcher, writer, community organizer, and musician at The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the National Humanities Center, Yale University Press, SFPC, and elsewhere, most recently at a Manhattan-based educational media company. Margot's writing appears in The Guardian, USA Today, Belt Magazine, and The Adroit Journal, among other outlets, and focuses on music, math, linguistics, philosophy, disability, and prayer. Margot earned a B.A. in English and Political Theory at Duke University, where they picked figs and took long walks in the campus gardens.

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How do I apply?

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Applications open until Applications closed on August 4, 2024.

You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on . Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.

How much does it cost to attend?

For 5 classes, it costs $750 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.

SFPC processes all payments via Withfriends and Stripe. Please email admissions@sfpc.study if these payment options don't work for you.

Applicant FAQ

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