Week 6 Set: Teardown work session

Supervised set time and structured peer critique for the Slop Teardown, due this week — no new production exercise

29 March 2027

No new material this week. The set is work time, structured around peer critique circles rather than a demo, because a teardown’s weaknesses — a vague tell, an unfollowed money trail, an unnamed audience — surface faster under a stranger’s questions than under your own re-reading.

Bring#

A draft of your Slop Teardown, however rough, and the artefact it’s about (linked, or precisely described if invented). Half a page of notes is enough to work from; a blank page is not.

In the session#

Critique circles (35 min). Groups of three or four. Each student gets five minutes to present their artefact and draft tell-inventory, then five minutes of group feedback checked against one fixed list: does the draft name tells with a timestamp or specific detail, rather than a general impression (week 2)? Does it follow the money — what the artefact cost this way, what it would have cost the traditional way, who’s better off (week 4)? Does it name the artefact’s actual intended audience and the effect the artefact is built to produce on them, rather than just describing what it depicts (week 5)? Does it read as an argument with a position, rather than an inventory of observations? A group that can’t answer one of these about a draft has found the draft’s weakest section; say so plainly.

Revision time (remainder). Work alone or in your group on whatever the critique surfaced. Idris is circulating for the specific, mechanical questions — “is this actually a timestamp-anchored tell or a vibe” — not for opinions on your artefact choice.

Afterwards#

Submit the Slop Teardown. There is no set exercise to carry forward from this week the way other weeks carry a shot list or a worksheet forward — the deliberate point of week 6 is that the only thing produced this week is the argument itself.