#thesisresearch

[scientificphilosopher]

Bringing my thesis research to my office. Stuff's getting real now. Hopefully by the end of it I'll have an answer to the meaning of life 😉

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[drpompado]

#afstudeervoorstelling "If only we were grey" photo's. #artezfinals #afstudeeronderzoek #colorreel #thesisresearch #theatrical #research (at ArtEZ University of the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5lys2N5Sl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[drpompado]

This is the start of my research -not really the start, cuz I started long time ago, but it is my steady steps start- for my thesis titled; "Antebellum & the Pompadó" in which is a personal search within my artisticity and how my blackness affects how people perceive me and my art. More videos and explorations & requests & guests are coming right up #thesisresearch #blackartist or #justanartist The search for #equity #princeofwillemstad (at Willemstad, Curaçao) https://www.instagram.com/princeofwillemstad/p/CYS7VrLuhZi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[anurmz23]

An effort for bright future is not always easy to get it...its such a hard way for something you really want...it has been 2 years since i left my research for my thesis...in this moment, i just want to tell everyone that the knowladge is never be betrayed you ever . . . #planttissueculture #thesisresearch #collagememories #knowladge #thepowerofscience #biologymajor https://www.instagram.com/p/ByA_LrUD1me/?igshid=1h1oqoee7bpq8

[nineninetoone-blog]

Sunaura Taylor (2017). Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. New York: The New Press.

Summary:

Sunaura Taylor questions the definition of “Human.” And the difference between human and animals. Her disabled experience since young age brings her different perception of understanding the world. In her book, she argues the borders of disabled and non-disabled, human and animals, and makes people think deeply about the right of disability and animal justice.

Critical response:

In the book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, Sunaura posts provoking question about the difference between human and animal, not biologically, but in the right of equality. She shares her experience of being insult by her peers in the young age, questioning why people use animal-like judgement to tease and mock the others. And even though she likes monkey, she understood that when the other kids said she walks like a monkey is not a compliment. The narrative story makes me think about the perception of people on the animals and disability.

There are lots of theories about animal justice and there are also animal rights activists, sharing the idea of we and animals are creatures on the earth, trying to change the idea that human are the dominator of the world. I thought the situation is getting better and better, until I read the story and realized that we never put animals on the same level as ourselves. Then here comes the question: Who make the standard? Who set the line between us and any other ones that are not normative as we do? We can illustrate thousands of examples about what the majority did to the stranger, the heterogeneous: the witches, people who don’t have black eyes in the ancient eastern Asia, people who has superpower, weird creatures and etc. For our daily life, there are human and non-human, male and female, disabled and non-disabled, people with different skin color, thin and fat, tall and short, beauty and so-called non-beauty. Are we naturally hostile to the one who is not alike us? Are we searching for the absolute uniformity?

Cite:  Sunaura Taylor (2017). Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. New York: The New Press.

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Marcus Gilroy-Ware (2017). Filling the void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media. London: Repeater Books.

Summary:

The book provides stories and datas about social media, from which we can see the relationship among users, internet social community and capitalism behind. The author reasons the pros and cons of social media and review its function and system through cases analysis, which provides an overall viewpoint about internet life and its reflection on the real world.

Critical response:

The book begins with the the question about a narrative story that a woman standing in the water, was taking the selfies with her iphone. The author asks that whether the woman was taking control of her own representation, objectifying herself, or just having a nice time. It is interesting to see that the author regards people taking selfies as an action of self re-identifying.

It occurs to me that how important or attractive to people to present themselves in the way they want on the internet. There are astonishing datas in the book showing that people risking their belongings or even life to take the ‘perfect’ selfies. Consuming time like picking the perfect one from fifteen to twenty photos would be the basic standard. Let alone the fact that the big part— when you finally post your perfect pictures on the social media— would take you whole night checking the number of “like”, showing the acceptance or endorsement of other people, which is the critical part of the whole action. Yet it never ends if the respondence in the social media doesn’t meet your expectation. “How many more ‘likes’ has the latest photo you just posted received? Has it reached a hundred yet? Why not?… Is it because you might have put on wight, or are starting to get crow’s feet?” Thousands of conjectures are keep fulfilling your mind and you will feels more anxious and empty than ever.

Behind all the time-consuming, anxious waiting, successful or failing selfies and the habit of logging in social media searching for nothing, there is a social network’s “community standards”. We try our best to meet the standard, take “the right” photo, and obtain consent of someone unknown in our real life. We are addicted to it. But who make the standard, the so called right? Who forms our social network’s aesthetic? Why are we eager to get approval by unknown people in the internet? Why can’t we stay calm?

Cite:  Marcus Gilroy-Ware (2017). Filling the void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media. London: Repeater Books.