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.