Sunday, June 13, 2010

Bryant Park Chapbook


The chapbook of our Bryant Park project is available in a box placed by my office door, M109-E. I will leave the box there until the end of exams, Wednesday 6/16.

I tried to come up with a title that was descriptive of the project, and finally settled on "On The Passage of Certain Figures Through A Limited Space and Time," which I think captures it precisely. The phrase was inspired by the title of Guy Debord's 1959 film "Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps" (roughly, "on the passage of some people through a brief span of time"). Debord was an important avant garde filmmaker and social/political theorist of the 1960s -- his work is complex, but definitely worth exploring.

I've also made the PDF file for the chapbook available here. To produce your own copy, simply print the pages double-sided, stack them in order, fold them along the 11" axis, and sew or staple along the fold. However, you should still pick up one of the copies I had printed, since they have a color cover and the printer has trimmed all the edges for a cleaner, easier-to-read book.

It was great working with all of you this semester!

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