INVISIBLE COLLEGE ARCHIVE
10/16 - SNAKE OIL: BEAUTY & JUSTICE, ON THE EYES OF OEDIPUS (AND TIRESIAS, MILTON, JOYCE, & BLIND WILLIE MCTELL)
10/23 - SCORPIO INGRESS - SPECIAL EVENING SESSION & SNAKE OIL PARTY @7PM EST
10/30 - SNAKE OIL: THE DEAD
11/6 - SNAKE OIL: THE ALEPH & BEYOND, LIVE FROM BUENOS AIRES
11/13 - SNAKE OIL: MY COUSIN THE MESSIAH
11/20 - SNAKE OIL: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS 1- ON TURKEYS, TURDUCKENS, & POETRY FROM ATTAR TO CHAUCER
11/27 - SNAKE OIL: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDS 2 - DAVID RATTRAY’S “MISTER PEACOCK”
12/4 - SNAKE OIL: NEW MOON TOTAL ECLIPSE IN SAGITTARIUS
12/11 - SNAKE OIL: CLOSING SESSION + POET & ALCHEMIST FEAST
12/18 - SEE MY HEART PARTY - DIGITAL READINGS & PERFORMANCES
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2021 CURRICULUM
JANUARY 23
JANUARY 30
FEBRUARY 13
FEBRUARY 20
FEBRUARY 27
MARCH 13
MARCH 20
MARCH 27
APRIL 10
APRIL 17
APRIL 24
MAY 8
MAY 15
MAY 22
MAY 29
JUNE 5
JUNE 12
JUNE 19
JUNE 26
JULY 3
JULY 10
JULY 17
JULY 24
JULY 31
AUGUST 7
AUGUST 14
AUGUST 21
AUGUST 28
SEPTEMBER 4
SEPTEMBER 11
SEPTEMBER 18
SEPTEMBER 25
OCTOBER 2
OCTOBER 9
OCTOBER 16
OCTOBER 23
OCTOBER 30
NOVEMBER 6
NOVEMBER 13
NOVEMBER 20
NOVEMBER 27
DECEMBER 4
DECEMBER 11
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 25
FOR MORE INFORMATION, EMAIL US AT LAZYEYEHAVER@GMAIL.COM.
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the opening of the mouth
2020 Video collection
60 videos | over 111 hours
RILKING - March 2020
READING RILKE’S DUINO ELEGIES ONE AT A TIME, IN STEPHEN SPENDER’S TRANSLATION. THE TITLE COMES FROM A SOMEWHAT MEANSPIRITED LINE FROM A POEM BY KENNETH KOCH, AND NAMES MY PLAYFUL APPROACH TO READING ONE OF THE MOST SENSITIVE, AND MOST PROFOUND, OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S POETS. THE DUINO ELEGIES HAVE BEEN A CORNERSTONE OF MY PEDAGOGY SINCE 2012: TO READ THEM CLOSELY IS AN INITIATORY AND FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMATIVE PROCESS. THESE ARE POEMS THAT CAUSE LIFE AND DEATH TO FACE ONE ANOTHER—THEY SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE START OF THE COVID ERA. RILKING IS WHERE INVISIBLE COLLEGE BEGAN.
INANNA: 12 DAYS OF SUMER - APRIL 2020
A STUDY IN ECSTATIC RECEIVERSHIP, ANAPHORA, UNDERWORLD JOURNEYING, ANCIENT ROBOTICS, THE ETHICS OF BLISS, & FEMININE STATECRAFT THROUGH DIANE WOLKSTEIN & SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER’S INANNA: QUEEN OF HEAVEN & EARTH.
THE JOE BRAINARD BRAIN TRUST - MAY 2020
READING I REMEMBER ON THE DAILY, ALOUD & SILENTLY, QUEERLY, THROUGH ITS EXPLICIT & SUBMERGED BEAUTIES, & THE STRANGE RAYS OF VICIOUSNESS & SHAME IT LIGHTS UP INSIDE THE AMERICA THAT YET REMAINS INSIDE OF US.
GNOSTIC SUMMER - SUMMER 2020
CLOSE READING & DISCUSSION OF MUCH-MALIGNED, MISUNDERSTOOD, & SELDOM-STUDIED TEXTS INCLUDING THE SONG OF SONGS (KJV), THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND, THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, & MORE, WITH APPOSITE DIGRESSIONS ON UTOPIC & MALIGN FORMS OF AMERICAN GNOSTICISM.
OPENING OF THE MOUTH - fall 2020
A FULL SEMESTER OF PROGRAMMING FOR FULL AND NEW MOON DAYS, FEATURING EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, MICHEL ANDRE, OSCAR TUAZON & CEDAR SIGO, KATHLEEN HARRISON & BETT WILLIAMS, CACONRAD, MONDONGO, & EDGAR GARCIA, PLUS SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY, OUR SIGNATURE WORKSHOPS ON SATURNINE THEMES OF DISCIPLINE, STUDY, & THE CULTIVATION OF SKILLFUL RELATIONSHIP TO THE VARIOUS FORMS OF NEGATIVITY WITH WHICH ALL HUMAN BEINGS MUST CONTEND :)
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AUTUMN 2020
THE OPENING OF THE MOUTH
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Our time together this fall combines lineage work & research with a series of conversations & events focused on notions of purification, exorcism, reparation/repair, the noble art of speech, and apotropaic magic.
lunation day events take place at 7pm est except for our halloween gathering, 10/31/20, which happens at 10am, fusing with saturday morning demonology.
saturday morning demonology, a community gathering, will meet once a month at 10am est—and we will add sessions as required by the collective and by circumstance, as we are able.
9/2/20—FULL MOON IN PISCES The Palindromic Infinity of Guillaume de Machaut (Vimeo)
9/17/20—NEW MOON IN VIRGO ABRACADABRA: Cleaning the Temple (7pm EST)
9/26/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY week 1—EVENT LINK (10am EST)
10/1/20—FULL MOON IN ARIES First Among Equals: You & Your Ancestors (7pm EST)
10/3/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY WEEK 2—EVENT LINK (10AM EST)
10/16/20—NEW MOON IN LIBRA Civilization & Its Discontents: A Reading & Conversation with novelist Ottessa Moshfegh (7pm EST)
10/31/20—FULL MOON IN TAURUS / SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY All SOULs: A unique opportunity to talk with Houngan & Gnostic Bishop Michel André (10am EST)
11/7/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY (10am EST)
11/15/20—NEW MOON IN SCORPIO PUBIC SPACE: What Are Monuments For? A Conversation with sculptor Oscar Tuazon & poet Cedar Sigo (7pm EST)
11/21/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY—EVENT LINK (10am EST)
11/28/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY ET PHONE HOME: Extra-Terrestrial Life & the Ancient Technologies of Poetry & Ritual: A Conversation with caconrad (10am EST)
11/30/20—FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE IN GEMINI The Psychedelic Realism: A Reading & Conversation with writer Bett Williams & ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison (7pm EST)
12/12/20—SATURDAY MORNING DEMONOLOGY Art & Exorcism: A Conversation with Argentine Art Collective MONDONGO (10am EST)
12/14/20—NEW MOON TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN SAGITTARIUS Analphabetism: A Reading & Conversation with poet & anthropologist Edgar Garcia (7pm EST)
12/29/20—full moon in cancer community reading (7PM EST)
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all guest speakers are paid an honorarium. your contributions make it possible for us to record, host, and share these events, to pay our guest speakers, to keep you updated about our offerings, and to make this work available to those without material means.
thank you for the continued generosity of your support and for the ardency & sincerity of your participation!
if you would like to become a sustaining financial supporter of this project, to share gifts with us. or to offer skilled technical interventions that can help us improve the quality of our offerings, please get in touch at lazyeyehaver@gmail.com.
please direct any questions or thoughts to that same address!
if you’d like to be a part of our evolving conversation, please visit the invisible college facebook group. we also have a discord for those of us wanting a deeper dive—and privacy from the zuckerbergian algorithmic overlord—for the intense and sometimes difficult work this curriculum may engender.
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