At the junction between Sandra Lucbert and Kenneth Goldsmith, this session will be organised around a collective writing exercise based on the public hearings of the International Court of Justice, held in January after South Africa seized the ICJ for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, as well as the different coverage of the war in the media.
Our method will be to use a writing instruction Kenneth Goldsmith gave to his students in his book Uncreative Writing, which we will only follow indirectly.
As for the analysis, we will arm ourselves with the practical criticism of language Sandra Lucbert proposes in Personne ne sort les fusils and Le Ministère des contes publics.
Using a form of automatic writing, we will work together to deconstruct and masticate the words of power, general language, the language of the dominant, the “at last-it-should-so”.