Map Room 7: Speculative Generator

Pelagic Radio: The Lost Conversation, an interview with Sara Farrington

An interview with Sara Farrington, author of The Lost Conversation: interviews with an enduring avant-garde, published by 53rd State Press. https://53rdstatepress.org/Farrington-The-Lost-Conversation Discussed: art making, survival, capitalism, generational transmissions, what spaces are there, fifth graders and Beckett

Map Room 9: Monsters

The ninth installment of the Map Room builds monsters for story uses, out of forces moving at the edge region of a story. Find the images described and more at the post of this installment here: https://pelagicschool.net/workshops/map-room/map-room-9-edges-uneasiness-monsters/ You will need a free library card to access it. The book the map models come from is Terra Forma: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/terra-forma

Map Room 8: Folds

Installment Eight of the Map Room takes up a series of wrong behaviors in the mapping: folds, joins, portals, passages, distortion, scale, and wormhole. Considerations of each of these variables leads to a mapping prompt, as a resource for story writing. More at https://pelagicschool.net

Map Room 7: Speculative Generator

The seventh installment of The Map Room is a long guided mapping exercise that creates speculative overlays on the space you are in to imagine a world in deep time and abundant simultaneity. A few writing prompts follow. Go to https://pelagicschool.net for more information. Written & created by Karinne Keithley Syers / Pelagic School

Map Room 6: A Narrative Atlas

Installment 6 of the Map Room considers the idea of the narrative atlas, working from ideas from Denis Wood's Everything Sings. Find an excerpt from Denis Wood's book at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/Everything_Sings_Excerpt_and_Intro.pdf Pelagic Radio is written and created by Karinne Keithley Syers. More information at pelagicschool.net