we read it in my intro to doctral studies class with the expressed intent that it be a model for how to be an academic...not sure how to take it now...but furiously reading it again
yesterday, in a seminar with fred moten, he told us that he had made a mistake with the "undercommons". that everyone who reads it gets it wrong. he said, "it's not an instruction manual," it's a critique of any academic that might take it as one.
Or, more really, questioning what it is to read (this is where Blanchot comes in) Literature under the conditions of late capitalist domination of thought and language
It might be a challenging list for QC undergrads, but I think it's a fun one if you're interested in the ways markets, commodities, and money have shaped the thing we call Literature in the last 50 years
Finalizing my Writing for Lit syllabus for Queens College, and landed on the question of "Where is Literature?", asking students to question where we find literary acts/production.
Reading list so far: Blanchot, Benjamin, LANGUAGE poets, Jameson, Ngลฉgฤฉ wa Thiong'o, Erica Hunt, Amiri Baraka...
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