# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [A Practice in Subtraction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/assessments/a-practice-in-subtraction/): A studio piece, in a medium of your choosing, built around one deliberate and defensible omission
- [Commonplace Book of Cuts](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/assessments/commonplace-book-of-cuts/): A running collection of omissions you noticed in the wild, kept from week one and submitted at the end of week five
- [The Argument by Omission](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/assessments/the-argument-by-omission/): The final project --- a piece of persuasive writing, design or media whose force depends on something it deliberately never says
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Via negativa](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-01/): The opening lecture — the thesis for the whole semester, stated once, and the case for taking a course built entirely out of other people's cuts
- [The apophatic turn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-02/): Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides and the Cloud of Unknowing --- a tradition that got more precise about God by refusing every positive sentence about him
- [Blank silk](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-03/): Yuan-dynasty ink painting and the unpainted ground --- what a scroll's empty silk is doing when it's doing more than half the composition
- [The rest](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-04/): Silence as a compositional element, from the rest on a stave to Cage's four minutes and thirty-three seconds of nothing being played on purpose
- [The iceberg theory](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-05/): Hemingway's "the dignity of movement of an iceberg" and the minimalist fiction that took the metaphor as a literal compositional method
- [The invisible cut](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-06/): Continuity editing and the century-long project of making a cut feel like it never happened --- and what's lost when it succeeds too well
- [Negative space](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-07/): What a building or a page does with the room it refuses to fill, from Pawson's monastery to a logo that draws an arrow out of two letters
- [Less is a verb](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-08/): Dieter Rams's ten principles, Bauhaus functionalism, and the difference between a design that removed something and one that never had it
- [The null result](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-09/): Why "we found nothing" is the hardest sentence in science to publish, and what a discipline loses when it only keeps its positive results
- [Proof by elimination](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-10/): Occam's razor, reductio ad absurdum, and a mathematics tradition that treats the shortest correct proof as a mark of taste, not just economy
- [The unsaid argument](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-11/): Redacted documents, unpriced externalities and the political speech that persuades by what it declines to mention
- [What this course left out](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/lectures/week-12/): The closing lecture, turning eleven weeks of praising subtraction back on itself --- what does the thesis conveniently fail to explain?
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor and working film editor who runs the seminar's practice weeks and marks the two studio-based assessments.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, a scholar of apophatic theology who designed the course around the discipline's oldest trick for describing what language can't reach.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Orientation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/orientation/): The first seminar --- no assigned cuts to argue over yet, just the semester's ground rules and a warm-up exercise in noticing them
- [Painting and silence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/painting-and-silence/): Putting Ni Zan's blank silk next to Cage's rest --- do two disciplines' favourite omissions actually argue the same thing?
- [The cut](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/the-cut/): A screening-room seminar --- watching the same scene continuity-cut and montage-cut, then walking Pawson's monastery on video
- [The limits of restraint](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/the-limits-of-restraint/): The closing seminar --- pitching final-project arguments to the room and pressure-testing them against the semester's own counter-examples
- [The null result](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/the-null-result/): A seminar built around a real file-drawer case study, and a working session for "A Practice in Subtraction," due at the end of next week
- [The sentence not written](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-yunlin/sessions/the-sentence-not-written/): Arguing Hemingway's and Lish's cuts against each other, and workshopping Commonplace Books due at the end of this same week