Writing Tip of the Week: Ryan loves dictionaries EndNote X6 will make your life a smoother trip o he has

as a ton of dictionaries in his library o Collocation Dictionary shows words that are associated with other words IT DOES ALL THE RECALLING FOR YOU a good one is hard come across o Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gathering ammunition for writing turtles all the way down philosophical story woman who thinks the world sits on a turtle that sits on a turtle Ryan means that ideas lead to ideas lead to ideas you know you are at the end when youve reached a point of satisfaction o Phrasal Verb same as collocation; verb connected to a preposition o Blacksmithing dictionary wow disciplinary dictionaries are amazing for understanding terms bringing new words bringing in new ways of thinking about people gen.lib.rus.ec Ira Glass on creative work~ (Its great to be dissatisfied with your writing) He is the host of This American Life ; npr; he takes a theme every week and then he does three radio segments on them o perfect hair o (ryans ex: kids father always gone at night; he was sure his father was fighting crime; later finds out that he was cheating at his mom; kid gave him superpowers in order to make sense of his absence) [Radio Lab another show thats great] There are tricks to make things smarter than you; editing you can improve even if you never become a great writer the performance enhancement of writing is form plagiarism USE reference material Michelle: last class; French philosophy and modernism

the gaze, dependent philosophy; the self is constituted in the other o looking through the keyhole; you arent yourself until someone sees you o Descartes oops, when youre not thinking do you still exist; where are you when you are not thinking phenomenology- things as they give themselves to us Claude Levi Strauss- mythology we dont think the world, the world thinks us Ideas of binaries; good and bad; all meaning is derived from overcoming them We must paint ourselves into corners Grimms law language changes; laws that carry through all language (Ryan Color Terms; anthropologists at Berkeley looking at primitive people, 2 colors black and white; 3, b, w, x; 4 b, w, x, y o THERE IS AN ORDER OF COLOR NAMING) Minimal Pair joke;choke these sounds are very close together; WE made a diff between sounds o language is a difference machine; meaning is constructed by difference Roland Barthes o semiotics the study of symbols there isnt a difference between me and the world and language draws in the sand for us; so once we pull away we can see these lines for what they are zen non-meaning; surface; finds emptiness versus eternal chain of language o Tokyo streets empty spaces between the things that matter; they themselves dont have names o Tokyo is a city of time; how far away are things from train stations o Tempura; mostly empty; metaphor for communication; we are getting full from pockets of air light, not heavy like western fried food. o Sushi; simple yet complexity in it no erasures in Japanese art; practice for one shot o The world is a slanted circle The world works as a slant SUSHI IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE FOOD; who youre eating with The I eats with you

Junichiro Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadow Paul liked his style, once on every page; he just nails it on each page; pdf 16; Fountain pens o An insignificant little piece of writing equipment, when one thinks of it, has had a vast, almost bound- less, influence on our culture. o little change big difference Donald Keen; one of the translators; at Columbia; o talked about visiting Tanizaki; pristine clean bathroom, the shadows are for writing You make a world in your writing and a world that you are writing o if he were writing how things really were; he wouldnt be writing how things are (? ) AAAAAH o Read the thing about writing o Arlynne gives us a summary Western writing is more about roman letters dont have meaing themselves you have to string them; theyre not as flexible compared to Kanji which occupies a space He and his wife, preschool papers America horizontal lines; Japan boxes matrix and you fill in the spaces multidirectionality (top-down-right-left) (horizontal-left-right) (pre-war horizontal also read right-left) When we write, we think of time moving in one way but it doesnt have o be. One of Tanizakis big point is that when things are shifted slightly it is a BIG difference (Ryan writer in Paris Walter Benny? Talked about mysticism, The messiah comes, tea cup moving just a little way herald it; butterfly effect) DETOUR Shadow and Light as concepts Zevs Exit through the Gift-Shop; film about banksy, but banksy turned it around and made it about the film maker o His Art: image of bench, he paints the shadows that come at night he outlines the shadows

he gives the shadows a home; every night they nestle back into their place He calls them electric shadows adds the beautiful idea that these are not from sunshine, but they are created by man; streetlights; electric aspects of these shadows; the things that cast light are casting shadows Lets think about shadows; what are shadows? o If we were to write about shadows, what sort of thing are we to play on Sunlight vs electric shadows textured differently Like two different beasts o Paul Lacans mirror thing the idea (1950s-60s structuralism) That babies realize themselves in the mirror; oh thats me moment (In a sense you're always in a keyhole when you are a baby) A shadow is physically absent but it reminds you of you o Shadow, slant, circumstantial Youd hope the shadow isnt you It's in conversation with your movement in the world but also with light sources o Nietzsche very interested in Noon; no shadow you are just yourself your instant What sort of freedoms are allowed you when your shadow goes on break Tanizaki Silver, Gold, Tin; shadows polish o Michelle: a different type of aesthetic beauty; what does it mean for something to be beautiful swathed in darkness Ryan hates gold, ugly clay metal but in darkness catching light flickering, it is something that exists in dark places; Gold is what it looks like in a dark dark room. M: everything has two states of being; in the light and in the dark R: it's not just in the light you see better; dark worse; but about l and d giving things different textures; changes what they are

Context is a playground work. Its what you say to forget the hard problems of the slanted world Its that you have two objects o Tanizaki afraid of getting rid of all the shadows; you lose an entire world, an entire way of being; what do Shadows do for Tanizaki? Its darkness that illuminates. Paul Moonlight wakes us. Great Irony darkness illuminates things, it is not absence, it is many things; what else is it? o [WHAT ARE BAD PHOTOGRAPHS?] Darkness- cloudiness; (Applied to women) page 31-2 What is whiteness as a visual experience? Its not a paintstrip world Tokyo day and night; draw a hole? laundry is a everyday aspect of the house Question of Revealing Heidigger has an idea of truth; presocratic thought; at that time, truth was revealing truth being what unfolds; there is a revealing of what that image is Homer-let me tell you it is a process, a world opens up in the revealing shadows reveal? (general theory is a correspondence theory; closer to reality true; truth is tautology) image of the moon eclipse, spot light Trees light, shortening days leaves wither; NOT COLD Kant's perception, we never see the backside of things, we only see one angle and we have to put everything together Sorensen, Roy Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows Shadows show us the back of things shadows operate in an entirely different way to show us the world and eclipse is the backside of the moon

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Famous ancient story two men competition over painting the most beautiful grapes o The first, so beautiful that birds came; o the second painted the veil, revealing through concealing Kumi Yamashita a single light source and this world literally jumps out o Letters, it gets its very eyes from looking away from the light Tokihiro Sat a light artist o Light painting o Staircases ascending, descending, operating on different plans of reality leaving and coming; going and departing; implied movement; horizontal and vertical each step is a micro environment usually a picture is about one moment, but lightpainting spreads time out through exposure Naruki Oshima Reflections Bringing two worlds together, outside and inside solid concepts of in and out are disrupted movement in the picture - everything leads the eye to something else order of the reoccurring rectangular shapes versus the organic threes jungle of technology; green is the color of nature and tech. (escalator light) light refracts creates the new world but shadows tell the truth what are we thinking, this is how the world looks, how can we walk past it? o The art of the way the city actually looks. o The colors are way better in the actual photo Igmar Birdman Scandinavian (Danish) director Imagination throws a spear out into the jungle, intuition rationality is the army sent out to retrieve it Next week watch film, then talk about it