CUNY Academic Commons | Sara Deniz Akant | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/saraa/activity/ Activity feed for Sara Deniz Akant. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 e23c26ef7857c55d5a3e031fb59f4682 Sara Deniz Akant joined the group GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/743162/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:28:06 -0500 0cf75273e81a6202914f4aaa4da8a41b Sara Deniz Akant joined the group CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/743161/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:27:56 -0500 0c499be429061bb4b0a4c4a667b74a6d Sara Deniz Akant's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/584350/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:33:48 -0400 3ff590d0c3d57a14754b4ed1a1e6192c Sara Deniz Akant changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/533763/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 03:44:16 -0500 efe7dc0555dc3757a3e6e04c0866cd8e Sara Deniz Akant's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/533719/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:09:00 -0500 81f5f278347fce3defbd078fcef13b98 sara deniz akant modified Example of a “Deformance” Project in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431172/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:53:21 -0400 af0ae11d08c3177efa3ad4b88bddb897 sara deniz akant uploaded de Certeau - On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431171/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:52:57 -0400 de Certeau’s essay also relates to McGann’s description of “deformance” for me. Building off my post below – de Certeau argues that “the principle characteristic of an ‘art’ is the transformation of one state into another one.” By considering our everyday activities – of “dwelling, walking, spelling, reading, shopping, and cooking” – as the…[Read more]

]]> 09713115279fc454201c4636fd72c73e sara deniz akant uploaded Example of a “Deformance” Project to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431167/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:44:28 -0400 re: the McGann idea of interpretation + performance = “deformance.” The making of new art out of other art (how does this relate to bricolage?) In his project “Volumetric Cinema,” Kevin Ferguson (who co-taught the DH Praxis with Matt Gold last semester) digitally manipulates film clips to show that cinema should be seen as, “neither a window no…[Read more]

]]> 0cb8a4ed84eb0798c4c4585aabb7d64f sara deniz akant modified Anna Gibbs - The Gift in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428736/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:20:13 -0400 a37a2e5f8141fa232dc8d16d5174a72f sara deniz akant uploaded Anna Gibbs - The Gift to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428735/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:19:58 -0400 I intend to look at the methodology in this essay by Anna Gibbs, which both demonstrates and meditates on what she calls “fictocriticism.” First, she stages a collaboration between two texts: Marcel Mauss’ The Gift, and four texts written under the name of “Colette,” which takes the form of ten “cut-up” vignettes. In an “Afterward” to these texts,…[Read more]

]]> c4a2d0079227e7b84264e1181b6c4345 sara deniz akant modified Exhibit ‘T’: USA children (20th and 21st centuries) in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428623/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:35:06 -0500 96708bcfdc12f7a54648eabc59b7d942 sara deniz akant uploaded Exhibit ‘T’: USA children (20th and 21st centuries) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428586/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:45:50 -0500 This feels much creepier as an upload after the Carroll cipher, but I think its interesting to think about “teaching children to write poetry” in terms of pedagogical writing practice. And, going back to that word “creepy” – how poets have fetishized “childish” creativity – myself included, since I do think some of these poems are just really…[Read more]

]]> 8c3b5ba560d99ab9b92bb19b4a379b27 sara deniz akant modified Lewis Carroll - Alphabet Cipher in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428584/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:33:54 -0500 93eed224f34c77b52d3dd3c5791ceaba sara deniz akant uploaded Lewis Carroll - Alphabet Cipher to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428583/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:33:05 -0500 While thinking about what words can do, as signs and signifiers, why not also think about letters – in this case, of the English alphabet? Attached is a attached is an alphabet cipher by Lewis Carroll, which he apparently wrote in a magazine supplement explaining cryptography to children in 1868. Creepy.

But basically, I’m thinking of the s…[Read more]

]]> f3b6d9fd33c67f262ca834ed095a8ffc sara deniz akant uploaded In Their Own Words - You Da One to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428415/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:20:42 -0500 It was hard to choose which of these “nuggets” to upload – better would perhaps be a collection, since my point in this “pointing” is more to the “form” of the thing (writers writing about their writing, which is a type of performance in itself) – than any one particular thing. In any case, Tamayo’s book has caught my eye, and tho I haven’t rea…[Read more]

]]> 740df3190e9a3a79406059be54884de7 sara deniz akant modified Adrienne Rich - Notes to a Politics of Location in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428413/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:21:06 -0500 b81338949eb7f0eb9587341bf44a8bef sara deniz akant uploaded Adrienne Rich - Notes to a Politics of Location to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428412/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:20:40 -0500 In this essay, Adrienne Rich interrogates the myth of the universal, objective, (male), abstract, disembodied, and authoritative pronoun “WE.” Her arguments are personal – as she abides by the notion that the “personal is political” – but also nuanced and probing, constantly in revision of themselves: as she puts it in a different piece: “writin…[Read more]

]]> 8a36da5e727aab0c923944d9af4f4afa sara deniz akant uploaded Barbara Guest - Invisible Architecture to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427556/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:08:42 -0500 This short piece feels very important to any discussion of the creative act, the act of writing as discovery, or creative-critical mash up. “Invisible Architecture” lives – – – on the Poetry Foundation website.

]]> 3bacb5f3e11572e3fcb7ee3d9676fe7b sara deniz akant uploaded Ronaldo Wilson - Gray: Plates (8) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427548/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:05:16 -0500 I’ve been looking for cross-genre or performance work by Ronaldo Wilson (also a GC graduate) and came across this image-text piece in a journal called BOUNDARY 2. I’m interested in how the linguistic and visual gestures do or don’t work together – mostly in thinking about how a piece of writing or art comes into being at all. I see some conne…[Read more]

]]> 2dcb107fa10af6acaf0ebf736b5f12f4 sara deniz akant modified How Words Fail - Cathy Park Hong in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426928/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:07:55 -0500 04beea7acc20cca4a290713a00238105 sara deniz akant uploaded How Words Fail - Cathy Park Hong to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426927/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:06:32 -0500 In this essay published on the Poetry Foundation site, Cathy Hong writes about the problems of finding or defining a single “I” or “voice,” and her belief in “English as an artificial, stiffish thing.” She goes on to read the severed syntax in Paul Celan and John Taggart as not (only) philosophical or “experimental” (as seems implied by Ron Sill…[Read more]

]]> a42af0638b94ebbc94c7989d04af058a sara deniz akant modified Saidiya Hartman: Naming and the Archive - Venus in Two Acts in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426922/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 04:26:35 -0500 59f722cc4b2037a99965cbce78ec4e1a sara deniz akant uploaded Saidiya Hartman: Naming and the Archive - Venus in Two Acts to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426899/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:52:34 -0500 I’m interested in the theories and implications of a name – that is, a fixed word (or set of words) given to a person as means of defining and sustaining their existence and identity. In my own writing, I’ve become aware of forming shifting narratives and identities via first or “given” female characters with names often denoting something…[Read more]

]]> 803b91b7fa9bfaf09acf9f9b9c31d1b9 sara deniz akant modified Sarah Ahmed - Against Students in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426349/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:50:04 -0500 8c46cc8dbcf74e8b6f4309286401e8e1 sara deniz akant uploaded Sarah Ahmed - Against Students to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426348/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:48:35 -0500 At a certain point I realized I was reading so many “againsts” – Against Witness, Against Gentrification, and perhaps most importantly this – “Against Students.” I think Ahmed speaks to a lot of important issues to do with teaching, addressing “difficult issues,” and pinning the failures of institutions onto students. I enjoyed reading this as a w…[Read more]

]]> fa83c6cd86142e357378f19e2f015f57 sara deniz akant modified Shirley Jackson at Macy's in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426345/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:31:18 -0500 c9c49c79de3706bd01a0579131b0a180 sara deniz akant uploaded Shirley Jackson at Macy's to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426344/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:30:45 -0500 I mostly read, write, and write about poetry, its true. If I read fiction, I’m drawn to whatever is strange and haunting – SyFy, speculative fiction, or whatever lives close. After reading Shirley Jackson’s (one might say, ALMOST-YA) novel, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” this past summer, I was excited to come across this article she wrote i…[Read more]

]]> 906d0b47c9224c20a43842126b13b0d4 Sara Deniz Akant joined the group Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/425388/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:55:07 -0500 e1a69fb8af5bca01070a479361d090de Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Sample Project Proposals, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 https://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/12/07/sample-project-proposals/#comment-159 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:40:48 -0500 Thanks Matt – I continue to have trouble checking the Commons site as well as the blog – this was a helpful reminder (and helps a lot!)

]]> 6c181f7aafd91847e6ca7bdf3aa54b15 Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Examples of Project Websites, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 https://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/30/examples-of-project-websites/#comment-156 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:01:32 -0500 Hey Kevin – These websites look elaborate! Lots of research + site building skills; good to know I couldn’t make one by the end of the semester even if I wanted to.

I wonder if you could also post examples o […]

]]> 014b9ad46a67eba2b7d3b3432fecbdd1 Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, I wish I remembered..., on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/29/i-wish-i-remembered/#comment-113 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:08:23 -0500 Now I’m trying to download LOGO and think of deformance projects with it… think like, Spirographs… Spirographs for poetry.

]]> 97465f4e44dc4b9745625a9fdb073615 Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Teaching and Learning with Blogs, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 https://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/25/teaching-and-learning-with-blogs/#comment-100 Fri, 27 Nov 2015 23:40:28 -0500 Okay! Thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully I can work this out before or when I’m teaching –

]]> 9a2fe042e08767b0acd0e73c872260fe Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Wordpress II Workshop, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/24/wordpress-ii-workshop/#comment-74 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:03:12 -0500 Good to know. As I wrote in a recent post, I really want to know how to use WordPress for my own teaching. I’m hoping the “Advanced” class will not be too advanced for me… I still don’t know about the widgets […]

]]> d8b82b67931239f2e39070dcbdebc946 Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Wordpress Workshop, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/25/wordpress-workshop/#comment-73 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:57:31 -0500 Aha – As someone who regrettably missed this workshop, your post about what you learned on Monday is helpful. I managed to convince myself that, since I had used WordPress in teaching before, I could just wait for […]

]]> 86a1803cbbf10c605322a960818ce1a7 Sara Deniz Akant joined the group Poetry and Poetics https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421379/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:53:06 -0500 cca120131a2a1d7019853245900daf77 Sara Deniz Akant commented on the post, Poetry, Appropriation, and the "Avant-Garde", on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/10/25/poetry-appropriation-and-the-avant-garde/#comment-33 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:41:14 -0400 Thanks for your reply, Lisa!

I know this post was big – the questions, and the scope of issues that surrounds them – once I stepped away I realized how overwhelming it really was (hence the PS addendum).

I […]

]]> 291eefc3866cf0d52483e6645d3be8fa Sara Deniz Akant's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/415433/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:39:31 -0400 2718b4378d2527624087db49a19b0c42 Sara Deniz Akant's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/412237/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:40:43 -0400 035794705de93419c6ed39f5815122ad Sara Deniz Akant became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/410724/ Wed, 02 Sep 2015 19:39:51 -0400