Writing Labs
Open to researchers and practitioners of all disciplines, the Writing Labs explore what writing can do critically and creatively.
Writing Labs
06 Nov 2017, 18:00 – 20:00
The first of two seminars concerned with the theme of love, Tim Mathews and Mathelinda Nabugodi will look at Percy Bysshe Shelley’s short essay On Love (1819) and Roland Barthes’ Fragments d'un discours amoureux (1977) [A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments trans. by Richard Howard] focusing on the introductory section on how the book is constructed and on the fragments s’abîmer, absence, atopos, déclaration, identification, and lettre.
The Writing Lab will explore the ways in which these two authors use creative techniques to drive their critical argumentation about the overpowering, and yet elusive, subject of love. The reading will provide a foundation for the second part of the seminar which is devoted to the discussion of work-in-progress by its participants.
The Writing Labs are conceived and organised by Emma Cheatle, Tim Mathews, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Emily Orley, Jane Rendell and PA Skantze
The next Love Lab will take place on 5 March 2016. More information to follow.
Image: Site-writing: Gutter, 2017. The first iteration of the exhibition Site-Writing: Gutter, Index, Margin, 2017. Credit Joanne Preston.
Further information
Cost
Free
Open to
UCL staff
Availability
Yes