Ideas

Threads and tensions surfaced across the readings, grouped by theme.

language4

getting the language back vs. articulation as blindness
Night 1 Raymond Carver , Henry David Thoreau , Robert Frost
three relationships to language
Night 1 Robert Frost , Henry David Thoreau , Raymond Carver

perception4

closed eyes as a way of seeing
Night 1 Raymond Carver , Henry David Thoreau
travel while I'm here
Night 1 Henry David Thoreau

self-deception4

american-identity3

earnest but naive in retrospect
Night 1 Henry David Thoreau , Robert Frost
the myth of American individualism
Night 1 Robert Frost , Henry David Thoreau

action3

meta-project2

getting the language back vs. articulation as blindness
Night 1 Raymond Carver , Henry David Thoreau , Robert Frost

knowledge1

architecture1

capitalism1

subtraction1

closed eyes as a way of seeing
Night 1 Raymond Carver , Henry David Thoreau

hindsight1

earnest but naive in retrospect
Night 1 Henry David Thoreau , Robert Frost

narrative1