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One of the starting points for thinking about this course, for me, is my reading of Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play." It's a fundamental apect of my intellectual and creative life that the groove relating structure (grid, fixed meaning) to play (freedom, chaos, unlimited potentiality) and it meant a lot for me, back in the other century, to have it laid out in a clear but playful way. As we've developed the course, it's become much less important to me that we actually read this essay together (I imagine it comes off as dated, mannered, and too assumption-ridden for freshmen to really dig into), but I am still looking for ways to help us to play out a primary (not abstract, but concrete) way of thinking about the relationship between grid and play.

This essayette feels as if it may be directing traffic towards some art/people/writing to look at.