Fight Club: http://biblioteca.salamandra.edu.co/libros/Palahniuk,%20Chuck%20-%20El%20Club%20de%20la%20Lucha%20(english).pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSxGpD4uuM Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer… maybe self-destruction is the answer – pp. …maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves (the shell/remnants of the recent past. Like a Phoenix reborn at a higher vantage point or possessing the beauty of hindsight as we quite so frequently quote… Continue reading Quotations – Subjective (Modern) Experience in Film
Category: Dissertation
Dissertation Research – The Medium’s Condition
In light of the Unit 8 Essay, I have decided to revisit an earlier essay topic, one that still very much interests my practise. Originally, my line of questioning was whether photography was/could still be a ‘discrete’ medium in the Digital Age, however now I feel that this line of questioning is redundant in that we… Continue reading Dissertation Research – The Medium’s Condition
Dissertation – Text Extract – High Rise (1975)
High Rise – J.G Ballard Now that everything had returned to normal, he was surprised that there had been no obvious beginning, no point beyond which their lives had moved into a clearly more sinister dimension
Dissertation [Proposal]
What does a dissertation proposal include? The essential parts of a research proposal are generally standard: Dissertation title (so far): Aim at making the title short and to the point. Overall objectives: If you have more than three objectives, your area of research is probably far too broad and needs to be narrowed. (Some university… Continue reading Dissertation [Proposal]
Unit 8 Essay – Predicting the Future: A Small Anthology of Walter Benjamin
This units essay was heavily inspired by the Year 1 Seminars on Walter Benjamin that I participated in at the beginning of this term. Although I had already read his work and aware of his ideas, these seminars (conducted by Paul O’Kane) really allowed me to dissect Benjamin’s ideas in a group forum as I felt that I… Continue reading Unit 8 Essay – Predicting the Future: A Small Anthology of Walter Benjamin
Unit 8 & Dissertation Proposals [Notes]
Unit 8 Essay: Starting Points: Research ‘PREDICTING THE FURURE OF TECHNOLOGY’ The Arcades Project: Convolute (pg. 27 onwards) The Dialectics of Seeing – Susan Buck-Morss/Walter Benjamin Overcoming Conformism – Ester Lesley The Death of Art – Hegel Dissertation Notes: 18th April deadline for Unit 8 (3000 words) 31st May deadline for 500-100 (words) Dissertation Proposal… Continue reading Unit 8 & Dissertation Proposals [Notes]
Dissertation Question(s)
Topics: The lost art of drawing Why drawing is more important then ever Why photography matters A Copy is a Copy is a Copy is a Copy Art, Appropriation and Everything In-between Art in the Digital Age/Drawing in the Digital Age Drawing, Post-Art Modernity The Drawn Image