Seminars
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each seminar, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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
Week 1 · 24 February 2027
Painting and silence
Putting Ni Zan's blank silk next to Cage's rest --- do two disciplines' favourite omissions actually argue the same thing?
Week 4 · 17 March 2027
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
Week 5 · 24 March 2027
The cut
A screening-room seminar --- watching the same scene continuity-cut and montage-cut, then walking Pawson's monastery on video
Week 7 · 7 April 2027
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
Week 9 · 21 April 2027
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
Week 12 · 12 May 2027