In this class we will look at the history of writing as an act of incitement. From Marquis de Sade to Julian Assange, the very act of writing is something of a provocative act, taking the time to examine that which might well go unexamined. There's a long list of writers we will study as related: Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Gaitskill, Lynda Barry, William S. Burroughs, Ishmael Reed, Eileen Myles, Mart