Dear Graham,
environment really, that shapes the play &
plays the shape of converse-action the way
a tennis court, net, lines & conventions bracket
possible moves & occlude those that might
could occur but won’t because they wouldn’t
be “in-game.”
Frame Discourse: discourse about what kinds
of ENVIRONMENT we might want to generate
—and how? Matrices for the various kinds of
lusory-to-illusory ratios we might want to sustain.
We both know the play’s the thing.
But I can’t force the issue: make any
one Put IT in Play damnit
BE A LIBERAL ARTIST!
It takes an certain kind of environment
to grow players.
“TOPIC” initially meant a place or common place for
conversation and not just the course subject matter it
now means. A TOPIC about topics: environmental
studies talking about environments for mental studies:
what kinds grow individual genius, say; and what kinds
grow collaborative genius, and what kinds grow a
relationship between the 2: 3 different contexts,
3 different games?
Questions like these = Frame Discourse.
Contextual Harassmental Studies:
a level jump above the Taking Care of
Business-as-Usual: window screens in Jensen,
student-to-classroom course ratios, discipline-
specific pedagogical concerns, study skill
remedial programs to straighten-out the odd
ball bunch of learning disabled and variously
dysfunctionally diagnosed: how to take notes,
manage time and make normal students out
of them. De-marginalize.
To Educate
To Inform
To Edify
3 different environments maybe all sub-ordinate to
a larger environment: or call it 3 different contexts;
I’d call it 3 different games—as different as ping
pong, rugby, and theater.
Talk Like This = Frame Discourse.
Meta-Pedagogical
To Put IT in Play: PIIP. What do you mean Put it in
Play, Sam?—all the time saying it for crying out loud:
redundant, monotone, Jonny One Note— boring, really,
I don’t get it, students have told me.
In Play: Desporting life! Mutate crying out loud;
risky business like any x-treme sport I don’t
know but I’ve been told…
Right there: you saying
What?
What the? =
putting it in play.
Questioning.
Questioning authority.
Questioning everything.
You’ve seen the bumper stickers.
Don’t be postponing joy. It’s all up for
grabs, or what’s a college for? School Mode.
Look around round round: all the lonely people where
do we all come from? Walk on Eggs or Walk on Water:
Got to choose our
studies.
Who then devised the torment?
Love.
Love is the unfamiliar name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power can not remove
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.
You can improve my terms & images, Graham.
Fine Arts do it better! I believe it. A different
environment all together from Humanistic Studies.
Could we turn it way up? The difference? Put it
in Play? See what there is to see just by fooling with
it?
It, I said.
Jensen & the Howard Cosells
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