Corrective Lenses: Creative Reading and (Recon)textual/ization

A text dropped in the brain’s pail rattles the way astrophysicists say

they can hear the birth of time tuning the salt rim of Saturn. For

example, Finnegan’s Wake. For example, horoscopes, and little notes

folded into cookies. The Society of Prophetic Archeologists argues

all arguments are subject to confirmation bias. in this course we

will venerate the subjective mind, or rather, examine how subject/

object share the fuzzy circumference of a lone spotlight beneath

the proscenium arch. There is no reliable narrator. For example, tea

leaves or cloudbursts in the shape of ladybirds. We will interrogate

the cagey and shifting sign in order to coerce all its false confessions.

We will learn to project our backslashes to snatch a suffix like the

fake mustache of an incognito, impose parentheses to ironize our

dependence on convention. Because there are no valid means of

assessment students are encouraged to assign their own grade upon

registration. Any book will do: phone, face, match, bank. We will

set course across wastelands of difficult punchlines under bad signs

to flush the comic truth like what? a flock of starlings? a dime bag?

while we pretend a grasp of subtleties as they spiral sparkshowers like

a Chinese New Year, red, gold, red, gold, red, gold.