This Thursday we begin with Getting Stuck and Unstuck. ^^^ Library of Babel!
Innovation and Transformation Book Club
Innovators?
a. “Good Taste” by Isaac Asimov – page 51 in Science Fiction Masterpieces = 13 pages
b. Wikipedia page for Arthur Rimbaud + “Tale” by Rimbaud in Illuminations = approx. 3 pages
c. “Roped: A Saga of Art in Everyday Life” and “Before and After Science” by C. Carr – page 3 – 15 in On Edge: Performance At The End Of The Twentieth Century = 12 pages
Total Pages = 28
Punk Hunger
a. “09-11-81 Devonshire Downs CA” by Henry Rollins – page 21 in Get in the Van = 2 pages
b. “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka – page 161 in The Metamorphoses and Other Stories or page 268 in The Complete Stories = 11 pages
c. “On Not Playing Dead” by Kathleen Hanna – pg 122 in Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth = 8 pages
Total Pages = 21
Getting Stuck and Unstuck
a. “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges – page 79 in Ficciones = 9 pages
b. Excerpt from “Habit 1: Be Proactive” by Stephen R. Covey - page 66 – 80 in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People = total 14 pages (Read the whole Chapter if you have time!)
c. The Game Of Death starring Bruce Lee, a film to be watched independently or as a group before discussion = approx 90 minutes
d. “Oikoumene” by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez – page 69 in New and Later Poems = 1 page
Total = 24 pages + 90 minute movie
Ordeals
a. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway – page 39 in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway = 17 pages
b. “The Temptation of Jesus”, “Concerning Anger”, “Love For Enemies” and everything between “Do Not Worry” and “Hearers and Doers” - page 3 in The New Testament, Mathew = 4 pages
c. “A Great Wall” by C. Carr – page 25 in On Edge: Performance At The End Of The Twentieth Century = 24 pages
Total = 45 pages
Transformational Performances
a. Excerpt from “Points of Contact Between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought” by Richard Schechner – page 3 – 13 in Between Theater and Anthropology = 10 pages
b. Excerpt from “Introduction” in Song and Circumstance: The Work Of David Byrne by Sytze Steenstra – pg 3-12 = 9 pages
c. Stop Making Sense, a film starring the Talking Heads, to be watched independently or as a group before discussion = approx 90 minutes
d. “The Real Experiment” by Allan Kaprow – page 201 in Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life = 17 pages
Total = 36 pages + 90 minute movie
