Jesse

Here’s what we’ll spend our time doing this semester. The schedule will evolve as we proceed. Watch regularly for more details, added activities, and stuff might change or move around as our conversation does.

Why do documentary films get made? What do their makers hope these films will do in the world? Does the film released in a multiplex do something categorically different in the world from the one released online? How do stories get told across what might otherwise just be a series of talking heads?

We are at a point in our evolution as a species where we’ve become not quite living not quite dead.

The zombie threatens to devour us, but in an altogether different way from the machine. Machines take our flesh away. Zombies, which are the epitome of flesh, proffer it back.

Writing is a practice and a process, thus the “-ing” on the end of the word. In this class, we will focus on the inventing, the doing, and the revising--and not as much on the finishing, not on the being done.