Notes

I saw Renee Gladman, about whom I shall write more later (as in, after reading a few more of her works- I need to process her gorgeousness a bit more), tonight and took a lot of notes. Most of it, I think, was about my writing, but some, at least, seemed very deep at the time. Also, some words to look up and books to check out. I shall try to make sense of this craziness!

Books to Check Out:
62: A Model Kit- Julio Cortázar
A Small Place- Jamaica Kincaid

Films to Check Out:
The Stalker
The Tenant
India Song
Her Name's Venise in Deserted Calcutta

Words to Look Up:
Inscrutable- not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious
Aphasia- loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage

To Write:
A sentence broken to be fit between two pages
"Shiney Planet"- retell 100-ish times as novel
Response to Afterschool Nightmare- afterlife versus prelife-- this life as the afterlife.

Thoughts:
Post-apocalyptic internal state- mind as innermost space, universe as outermost
Locations of things gone/lost - the self -- Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. (1995). Theorizing heritage. Ethnomusicology 39(3) 367-380.
Circular Time- Pooh and Piglet lost in the forest
"Dispersal of the self"-- I leave myself behind a little bit wherever I go.

Gladman Quotes/Thoughts:
Body as Space
Language - Architecture
Does writing have to be representational?
Ethnography of geographic space
"Nutritional hunger"
Sounds that cannot be reproduced in writing
Translation- multiple ways of representation, literal, translation of lived experience to written account- what is lost/gained?
Confusion as shared experience- arising from the performance of understanding-- infectious confusion
BROWN
Loss of self in "me"
Come at a piece from many angles
Implied subject and multiple levels of "we"- insider, emergent
Dispersal of the self
Intentional space for wandering and encounters with fixed objects- museums, libraries-- established for the antiestablishmentary.