Part II: Masks, Exits, and Wounds
Unit 7: Intimacy, Distance, and Reckless Speech
Monday October 5 and Wednesday October 7
Why can distance make difficult truth more receivable, and what responsibility remains when speech is deliberately reckless?
Orientation
Distance is not evasion. This week we study how a smaller room, a quieter voice, and a story told sideways can make a hard truth more receivable, and what is still owed when speech is deliberately reckless.
What this Unit teaches
- intimate versus spectacular form
- room, volume, attention, and persona
- allegory and indirect speech
- gruesome material that remains gruesome
- split reception
- no innocent outside
- Ricoeur's distanciation
- responsibility for reckless speech
- early exam integration
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The orientation above stays open. The Monday and Wednesday work, the readings, the Labs, and the deliverable unlock with an account, an active Studio subscription, and your course access code.
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