For one week we will use elements of dérive as a tool for exploring various terrains through writing—urban, biological, geographic, landscape, residential, climate, etc.—in order to gain insights into these questions and ultimately reveal the complex relationships between internal experience and external myth. We will illuminate what lies in the margins seeking a cynosure for all eyes.
Past Programs
Referent: Cynosure in Psychogeography
Overview
First presented as a virtual program for Arts Letters & Numbers 2022.
WHEN
Summer 2022
WHERE
All classes are held virtually.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Registration is closed.
Image Courtesy of Adrianos Efthymiadis – Arts Letters & Numbers
Cynosure (n.)
“a person or thing that is at the center of attention or admiration,” 1590s, from French cynosure (16c.), from Latin Cynosura, literally “dog’s tail,” an old name of the constellation (now Ursa Minor) containing what is now the North Star, the focus of navigation, at the tip of its tail; from Greek kynosoura, literally “dog’s tail,” from kyōn (genitive kynos; from PIE root kwon- “dog”) + oura “tail.”