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The Lyric After Liberalism; 5-Session Workshop with Wendy Lotterman
Admission
- $200.00
Location
Zoom
Summary
Saturdays Nov. 2-Dec. 7
(no session Nov. 30)
1pm ET
Virtual
This workshop will read for and write toward a formal aspiration: disentangling intimacy from privacy within the lyric form. The generic principle of lyric as an apostrophic emission from a single, psychic interior was consolidated in the same historical and intellectual context as liberalism, whose presupposition of an original individual secures its project of division, privacy, and property. We think of lyric as a space of divulgence – a secession from the public sphere that ups the ante of language through the stakes of disclosure. Privacy requires we turn away from the social in order to offer something that is properly ours, but even as an aesthetic mode it reinforces the premise of liberalism. Still, there’s something we keep returning to in lyric – the way it logs an ambivalence that throttles the wager of relation. The solution can not be as simple as eliminating the first-person singular. Conceptualism threw out difference with the bathwater of Modernism. How, then, do we disinherit the legacy of liberalism inscribed within the lyric form, or: how do we make it social? We will answer this together by generating new poetry and reading texts by: Fred Moten, Robert Glück, Walt Whitman, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, G.W.F. Hegel, Barbara Johnson, Bostock v. Clayton County, Wendy Brown, John Locke, C.B. MacPherson, Hortense Spillers, and others
Event Registration is closed.
(no session Nov. 30)
1pm ET
Virtual
This workshop will read for and write toward a formal aspiration: disentangling intimacy from privacy within the lyric form. The generic principle of lyric as an apostrophic emission from a single, psychic interior was consolidated in the same historical and intellectual context as liberalism, whose presupposition of an original individual secures its project of division, privacy, and property. We think of lyric as a space of divulgence – a secession from the public sphere that ups the ante of language through the stakes of disclosure. Privacy requires we turn away from the social in order to offer something that is properly ours, but even as an aesthetic mode it reinforces the premise of liberalism. Still, there’s something we keep returning to in lyric – the way it logs an ambivalence that throttles the wager of relation. The solution can not be as simple as eliminating the first-person singular. Conceptualism threw out difference with the bathwater of Modernism. How, then, do we disinherit the legacy of liberalism inscribed within the lyric form, or: how do we make it social? We will answer this together by generating new poetry and reading texts by: Fred Moten, Robert Glück, Walt Whitman, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, G.W.F. Hegel, Barbara Johnson, Bostock v. Clayton County, Wendy Brown, John Locke, C.B. MacPherson, Hortense Spillers, and others