Semester long course designed for pandemic remote learning during Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, taught at Princeton University. (See PU webpage here: Princeton Course Offerings.)

The writer Annie Dillard says that how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. With school as we know it upended, we have a unique opportunity to develop daily habits that contribute to lifelong independent learning and creating. We will look at practice as both verb and noun, paying special attention to the ways we embody the work (and change) we want to see in the world. Through somatic activities, talks with invited guests, projects, and readings (across the arts, sciences, philosophy, religion, and activism), we’ll revel in the interplay between process and product, solitude and community, structure and freedom, life and art.

Readings include:

• adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
• Linda Hartley, The Wisdom of the Body Moving
• Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
• Arzu Mistry and Todd Elkin, Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching
• James Baldwin, The Creative Process
• angel Kyudo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation