I/EYEGASM - San Diego State University

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i/eyegasm | engl 220 | sdsu | spring 2015 | dr. w. a. nericcio
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English 220 @ SDSU, Spring 2015
I/EYEGASM
The "Death of the Book," the
Digital Humanities, and the
Self[ie] in Literature, Film, Art,
Photography and
the World Wide Web
Tuesdays & Thursdays 11 to 12:15 | GMCS 333 (aka, the Eygasmatorium)
Professor William Nericcio
logo photography from the work of heather noelle
Buckle your seatbelts and order up some
eye-protection--this is NOT just an
"introduction to literature" class--that I can
guarantee.
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2015/spring/eyegasm.html
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Our Spring 2015 experimental literary/
cinematic festival will emerge out of the
twisted corridors of something I am calling
I/eyegasm as we explore the deliciously and
outrageously damaged psyches, minds, and
art of women and men in some of the tastiest,
most exotic and eye-opening literature, film,
art, photography, and poetry this side of the
planet.
Let's begin with some definitions:
eye, n.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian āge , āch , Old Dutch ouga (Middle Dutch ōghe)
1. The organ of sight. a. Either of the paired
globular organs of sight in the head of humans and
other vertebrates.The basic components of the
vertebrate eye are a transparent cornea, an iris
with a central (circular or slit-like) pupil, a lens
for focusing, and a sensitive retina lining the back
of the eye. Light entering the eye is focused by the
lens to form an image on the cells of the retina,
from which nervous impulses are conveyed to the
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from which nervous impulses are conveyed to the
brain.
I, pronoun
I /aɪ/ is the first-person singular nominative case
personal pronoun in Modern English. It is used to
refer to one's self and is capitalized, although
other pronouns, such as he or she, are not
capitalized. In Australian English, British English
and Irish English, me can refer to someone's
possessions (see archaic and non-standard forms of
English personal pronouns).
orgasm, n.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin orgasmus excitement or violent action in a bodily
organ or part (1652 in the passage translated in quot. 1684 at sense 1; compare also
quot. 1646 at sense 3) < Greek ὀργασμός , in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on
Hippocrates On Humours 3 < ancient Greek ὀργᾶν to swell with sexual desire).
1. A sudden movement, spasm, contraction, or
convulsion. Obs. 2. Originally: a surge of sexual
excitement; the rut; oestrus. In later use: sexual
climax, (also) an instance of this (cf. climax).
Enthralled by these treats from the
dictionary, we are now safe to grapple with
our neologism, or "new word" course focus:
I-gasm or Eyegasm. I/Eyegasm is a word
(maybe, also, a symbol) that reflects our
semester-long obsession with issues of
identity and subjectivity.
But there is more to it than that!
I/Eyegasm also embodies a common
experience--that mesh of our minds with
technology, touching/seeing screens
(computer screens, smartphone screens,
television screens) that come to dominate
our world view (and maybe, even, our lives).
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Eyes wide open, so to speak, these screens
become electric, naked mirrors, concealing
nothing, revealing all. What may come as a
surprise is that literature is the one place we
will find artists, famous and not so famous,
whose stories provide us with protection,
intellectual shields or a sort, that open our
eyes to brave new worlds. But these books,
movies, and the rest are not without their
tricks, not without their surprises, and the
fractured souls they flaunt before our eyes
will test our intellect, imagination, and, most
deeply, our emotions--they may even tattoo
our psyche!
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The various works we encounter this term
will teach us to rethink, rewrite, and
reimagine what it is we call to consciousness
when we picture the contours of the human
mind--in the process, we will learn again just
how instrumental the seductive mirror of
literature can be in exposing the riches of
these minds.
Or consider the urban dreamscape of this
next-world city in this collaboration of
ESKMO with Cyriak Harris:
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Or lastly, this moving allegory by Dan
Rodrigues and Jon Klassen, that ponders the
connection between seeing, identity, and
relationships:
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This course is open to ALL undergraduates
without regard to your selected major or
minor and assumes no expertise in literature,
film, or fine art. If you are breathing, have an
imagination, and are not easily offended by
adult issues, themes and images, then you
should seriously consider coming along for
the ride.
Upper division undergraduates and graduate students interested in taking this
class for credit, should see me in office hours or write me at memo@sdsu.edu
Working List of Required Works
FILMS {Screened FREE in Class}
HER
spike jonze, director, screenwriter
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SLEEP DEALER
alex rivera, director, screenwriter
TOUCH OF EVIL
orson welles, director, screenwriter
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BOOKS
{...in no meaningful order}
A note about purchasing books in our
special, outrageous, and experimental
introduction to literature class... You
might be asking yourself, "should I go
ebook or old school paper-book?" For the purposes of this
section of English 220, you MUST 'go old school,' 'old gangster,'
and buy or rent the real thing--and, though i don't care WHERE
you purchase/rent this paper artifact, make sure it is the edition
they carry in the campus bookstore! Why? So that we will all be
on the same page during discussions, in-class writing
assignments, quizzes, etc. Another thing: I negotiated some
cheaper prices on books and these sale prices may only be
available at our campus bookstore (so if you go and shop online
for all your books, you may lose out on a deal--this is especially
true of the Sacks, Gualdoni, and the Palahniuk/Kafka/Hawthorne
three-pack books).
You may have heard we are living through the age of the 'Death
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of the Book.' Don't buy the hype. Just as a Biology 101 professor
might scoff at you if you walked into an anatomy lab wanting to
use your 'scalpel app', or an archeology prof on a dig would faint
if you wanted to use your 'shovel app,' it's the same thing here.
Literature is about books--paper, black ink, paste, etc. As to
whether you should rent or buy--keep in mind that literature
books are NOT textbooks. They actually look good on your
shelves and tell the world a lot about yourself--basically, they are
an intellectual mirror of your tastes, range, and depth. That said,
it is YOUR call.
1.#Freud&For&Beginners#ISBN:#9780375714603#Appignanesi#&#Zarate
2.#Pop&Art&ISBN:#9788861307360#Gualdoni
3.&The&Mind's&Eye#ISBN:#9780307272089#Sacks
4.#Notes&from&the&Underground#ISBN:#9781554812219#Dostoyevski
(Broadview)
5.#Octoroon#ISBN:#9781554812110##Boucicault
6,#7,#8.#(CUSTOM#BUNDLE)##9780393279177#Norton
Fight&Club,#Palahniuk
Metamorphosis,#KaVa#
The&House&of&Seven&Gables,#Hawthorne#
9.#Gradiva&:&Delusion&&&Dream&in&Jensen's&Gradiva&
ISBN:#9781892295897#Freud
10.#Ways&of&Seeing#ISBN:#9780141035796#Berger
11.#Tex[t]MMex&ISBN:#9780292714571#Nericcio
I/EYEGASM Books via Aztec Shops!
I/EYEGASM Books via KB Books!
I/EYEGASM Books via Powells!
I/EYEGASM Books via Amazon!
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Passportgasm | English 220 | Eyegasm
DOORgasm
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HOMEgasm
PASSPORTgasm
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SPRING 2015
ENGL 220
PASSPORT
I/EYEGASM
The "Death of the Book," the
Digital Humanities, and the
Self[ie] in Literature, Film, Art,
Photography and
the World Wide Web
William A. Nericcio | memo@sdsu.edu
Director, MALAS; Professor, English y CompLit
earest I/Eyegasmic English 220 Students,
Spring 2015 @ SDSU! On this page you will
find the various laws that rule our 21st
century literary/cultural studies estate--the
little gates, cages, locks, and handcuffs as
well as the meager statutes, ordinances, edicts, and
principles that allow our experimental collective to thrive,
that stoke our collective electric imagination!
Let me underscore that you have absolute intellectual
freedom in our eyegasmilicious advanced seminar,
BUT to receive these delicious rights you must also
succumb to the reasonable responsibilities outlined in
this, our class passport.
After all, we want to have a blast, be the best
literature/film studies class on the West Coast, even
(take that Stanford! Eat my dust MIT)! But to do that, we
need some peace and quiet--a safe asylum within which
to forge our imaginative eye/I-sensitive imagination, to
amp our lucid literary and cinematic hallucinations. So,
then, read these laws carefully and thoroughly, so when
you walk into GMCS 333, the Eyegasmatorium!, you will
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2015/spring/passportgasm.html
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you walk into GMCS 333, the Eyegasmatorium!, you will
know what to do and what not to do!
STATUTE 1.111_READ_READ_READ:
When you enter this room for class you will have finished the
reading that appears on the day-to-day class calendar!
FINISHED (not started, not skimmed, not glanced)! Coming
to a university literature/film/cultural studies class without
doing the reading is like a gardener trying to raise roses without
getting her/his hands filthy with shit, a surgeon trying to operate
without a scalpel, a fireman without an ax, a streetwalker
without, er, well, I better stop there.
Do the readings. Do them twice if you can MAKE the time!
I know, you are saying to yourself, "they don't make me read in
my other classes" or some other sort of nonsense..... well here,
you must!
Please think twice about joining us if you have not finished the
readings--the quality of our class depends upon your
dedicated work and your relentless and independent curiosity.
Without your periodic intellectual donations, the class is likely to
evolve into a boring, even painful waste of time.
DIRECTIVE 1.2389 Beta-Tango67_MAC_PC_kaput:
Your laptop will be
asleep IN YOUR
BAGS during class--or,
better yet, resting in
your dorm room or
apartment. Have you
noticed how anytime a
student uses a laptop
in an auditorium there
is a "cone of
distraction" alongside and behind the student using a
computer? This is usually due to said student surfing the web
via wi-fi perusing erotic delights or god knows what. I was
recently at a cool (ok, it was slightly boring, I confess) lecture
by a noted writer--as I tried to listen to her, in front of me, a
diverted student, there, no doubt, for extra-credit, was perusing
sites like these (nsfw or school). So, laptops are GREAT for
entering your notes AFTER class, but they will not be allowed
in our lecture hall. If you have an issue with this, schedule a
meeting with me during office hours the first week of class.
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STATUTE 1.311893 Zed-BogieViperCell:
Your beloved magnificent iPhone, your
cherished Galaxy, your fetishized htcONE, or
even your primordial pager will be off, off, OFF
during class meetings; if for some reason you
are expecting an emergency call, set it on
VIBRATE (for privacy, pleasure, or both!) and sit
in the back near an exit after letting me know in
advance before class that you are expecting an
emergency phonecall. Cellphones KILL
collective spaces of learning with their ill-timed,
annoying clattering rings, bongs, squeaks,
chirps, and themes.
Yes, the trauma of that delayed text, yes,
the horror of that missed hook-up call, yes,
the loss of the buzz of that random Tinder
swipe will no doubt doom you to years and years on an
psychoanalyst's couch, but we, the rest of us, will gain some
silence, a kind of sanctuary without which ideas wither on the
vine. We are NOT joking about this unthinkable edict! Don't end
up like this former student from another Engl 220 I taught back
in the day:
click to enlarge
STATUTE 1.499556 Charlie-Delta_Thief:
PLAGIARISM is for cads, thieves, and
idiots who desire an "F" for the class.
Plagiarism comes from the Latin word,
"plagiarius" which means kidnapper,
plunderer, or (get this!) thief--not a
GOOD thing. In the university,
plagiarism refers to the art and crime of
presenting other people's work under
your own signature, aka cutting and
pasting copied crap from wikipedia-definitely a BAD thing. While your
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definitely a BAD thing. While your
professor is forbidden by CSU/SDSU
code from tattooing the word LOSER on the foreheads of guilty
students, he can promise that felonious students will be remanded
to the state-authorized SDSU executioners. Read THIS as well-SDSU is SERIOUS about this shit, so don't take any chances!
Rely on your own mind and your own precious imagination!
Other Requirements!!!!
WRITING AND EXAMINATIONS
You will be asked to write TWO Analytical Imagination
Challenges, 3-5 page essays, during the course of the term.
Please note that you will never be compelled to write about
something you absolutely loathe. Please see me or your
amazing GTAs during office hours as brainstormings essay
topics is totally cool. There will be an Imagination Challenge InClass Festival (aka, the FINAL EXAM) on the last regularly
scheduled day of class: Thursday, May 7, 2015. Your final is
absolutely comprehensive; it assumes you have read all the
books and screened all the movies that are part of our required
work. If you do the work, the final is a breeze--even "fun" if you
can believe it. If you slack off, you will find the Imagination
Challenge In-Class Festival as enjoyable as having dinner with
the Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo clan!
VIRTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
One social media site for this class,
Facebook-based, is located here. If
you are a member of Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg’s mad
experiment, then you are expected
to post class-related links, images, videos, articles, etc at least
ONCE a month or 5 total for the whole semester. If you have
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not bought into Zuckerberg’s mad experiment and stay away
from Facebook like the plague, you have a second choice--you
can directly submit a posting to the Eyegasm Tumblr Ar[t]chive.
I, too, will be posting course-related materials to our Facebook
and Tumblr sites from time to time—feel free to follow the page
and make suggestions for additions/deletions. If both Facebook
and Tumblr remain alien to your consciousness, you can send
your suggested links/images/videos to me via email to
memo@sdsu.edu; however, I don’t promise that I will post ALL
of your forwarded materials. I will try, however, to see that some
of them make their way to the fabulous internets.
QUIZZES, ATTENDANCE, and CINETREKS...
There will also be several In-class Panic-Inducing
Challenges otherwise known as CHECK-YOU-DID-THEREADING QUIZZES You can expect these miserable quizzes
from time to time, the number of quizzes depending on how
many of you are nostalgic for high school. In other words, if
everyone acts like a talented university student, we will enjoy
FEW if any quizzes during our semester.
Coming to class for each seminar
session is NOT optional--the whole
point of this class is to work
together, the idea being that we
creatively and magicly convert our
classroom into a chaotic,
unpredictable, and exciting
intellectual laboratory. Missing class,
you miss, as well, the whole point of
the adventure. So please bypass no more than three classes
during the semester--you are responsible for any work/notes
you miss when you are absent and can PRESUME that what
you missed that day was important!
Miss MORE than three classes during the term and your grade
will decay in an ugly way. EXAMPLES: your hard-earned A- will
morph into a B-; your "gentleman's C" will appear on the
webportal as a "D."
Ditching this class too often will be as fun as a case of flesheating virus.
Do you receive any second chances in this class on the off
chance you miss a quiz, blow an assignment, or generally
screwup altogether? Luckily, your eccentric Professor is a
recovering Catholic, and believes in the wonders of absolution-from time to time we will have out-of-class cineTREK
assignments; these can be used to atone for an extra-absence,
a missed quiz, or some other lapse you may engage in during
the term.
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GRADING INFORMATION
33% Quizzes, In-class "Panic-Inducing Challenges", Inclass participation, attendance, cinetreks, etc.
33% "Analytical Imagination Challenges" aka your two
essays
33% Final Examination Festival
1% Chutzpah, ganas, will, and drive
OFFICE HOURS
Why visit me and your GTAs during
'office hours'?
Why not?
I expect you to visit me in office hours
at least once during the semester.
Additionally, you are encouraged and
welcome to visit your GTAs. At SDSU,
it's easy to fall through the cracks, to
feel that you are nothing but a Red
ID# or some warm pile of sentient flesh filling a seat. In order to
convince you that the Professor teaching you is occasionally
human, please make a point during the semester to take the
time to introduce yourself in person. My office hours will be on
Tuesdays before class from 9:40 to 10:40 and Thursdays from
12:30pm to around 2:30 or so in Arts and Letters 273 (if I am
not there, look for me in the SDSU Press office, AL 283). If
these hours are inconvenient, do not hesitate to call me at
619.594.1524 either to schedule an appointment or discuss
your questions via telephone. My email address is:
memo@sdsu.edu
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While all words crafted for this syllabus are the product of your
professor's eccentric imagination, the following words, authored
by Poindexters @ SDSU central administration were not;
however, as this is an English 220 class, and a San Diego State
University General Education Explorations class, the following
verbiage must appear on this syllabus
Explorations
Courses that fulfill the 9-unit requirement for Explorations in
General Education take the goals and skills of GE Foundations
courses to a more advanced level. Your three upper division
courses in Explorations will provide greater interdisciplinary,
more complex and in-depth theory, deeper investigation of local
problems, and wider awareness of global challenges. More
extensive reading, written analysis involving complex
comparisons, well-developed arguments, considerable
bibliography, and use of technology are appropriate in many
Explorations courses.
This is an Explorations course in the Humanities and Fine Arts.
Completing this course will help you to do the following in
greater depth: 1) analyze written, visual, or performed texts in
the humanities and fine arts with sensitivity to their diverse
cultural contexts and historical moments; 2) describe various
aesthetic and other value systems and the ways they are
communicated across time and cultures; 3) identify issues in the
humanities that have personal and global relevance; 4)
demonstrate the ability to approach complex problems and ask
complex questions drawing upon knowledge of the humanities.
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