School
for
Poetic
Computation
This class explores the erotic relation of self to debt. How does debt change how we desire? How does debt itself seep into our bodies, and pour all over everything we do? This class fuses erotics to debt in a way that can dismantle structural violences of monetary systems. We will study erotics and explore our bodies as a way to fantasize out of our own debts both literal and metaphorical. In this space, debt is not what you think it is. What does debt say about how we do everything? Is there a debt jubilee in our future? Where are you holding debt in your body?
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Students are not required to disclose financial details about their debts. Get ready to challenge your beliefs on almost everything!
The Erotics of Debt is an of how we relate to debt in a complex, historic, and romantic way. This class incorporates readings and movement activities, centering the body as the site of historical knowledge. We'll cover the history of debt as well as future fantasy of what debt could be. To this end, students will create final projects that can take many different shapes that will create new debts.
In class, we will share how debt shapes our view of ourselves, ideas of community, our concept of time, and many other frames. There will be readings by debt scholars, including David Graeber and The Debt Collective. There will also be readings from scholars of the erotic, including Audre Lorde and L.H. Stallings. Students will be challenged to explore their own personal archives to document their debt lineage.
Movement activities include tracing how debt shapes our bodies. Together, we will seek absolution of debts and find out what happens when we forgive. There is ample room for low-stakes explorations of debt, invitations to share, and spaciousness for those who don’t want to share. Class culture is co-created and includes different modes of showing up and participation.
Students come willing to share and challenge each other. There will be a short required reading each week. Students are challenged to use their bodies and histories as a site of knowledge and creation.
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LA Warman is a poet, sound artist, and teacher based in Rhode Island. Her most recent poetic novella, titled, Dust ,was published in 2022 by Inpatient Press. Warman is the author of ,Whore Foods,, an erotic novella which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. She founded Warman School, a non-accredited and body-based learning center. The Warman School has taught over 1500 students online and in person. She teaches topics such as erotics, death, depression, and god. A book about her school, Unaccredited and Proud, was released in 2025 on Gender Fail Press. Her newest book, ,Debt,, will be released on Verso in 2026.
Pitchfork named her piece ADMSDP one of the top 100 songs of 2020. She has had performance and installation work in shows at MOCA Cleveland, ICA Philadelphia, Time-Based Art Festival, Poetry Project, and Open Engagement. Warman has presented performative poetics research at Brown University, Hamilton College, Reed College, Hampshire College, and others. Her work has been featured in media like Interview Magazine, Vulture, poem-a-day, Out Magazine, and Mousse Magazine.
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Maybe Tucker is a Black lesbian writer, dj, and hopefully more. They’re fond of weird sounds, 2000s r&b, women’s basketball, horror movies, and making things up. They’re curious about Blackness as a means for computation. You can find them online as @grlcomputer on instagram and soundcloud.
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Applications open until Applications closed on August 10, 2026.
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For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + 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.
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