STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: BLOGGING ALL THIS RESEARCH

​PREVIOUS BLOG ENTRIES

This site's main blog entry "THESIS ABSTRACT & CURRENT RESEARCH". (Click to visit.)

Epizoo 1994. Interactive Performance. Cara scene. Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca. (Click the image to visit the original post: "Squat the Message Board and Steal Their Memes", Wordpress.)

Mark Leckey’s installation in the exhibition “The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things“, 2013. (Click the image to visit the original post: "TECHNO-Animism: New Media Spirituality and Rituals of Making", Wordpress.)

David Beames (Doyle), Amanda Hale (Morris). Photo by Johan Persson. (Click the image to visit the original post: "The Frontier of Physical Touch: TechnoSex and the Virtual Fetish Fantastic", Wordpress.)

​THE REALIZATION

While my main blog for this site is typically filled with quick updates on my work and research, I will focus the more deep theoretical writings into this side blog; however, I had recently updated the main with a post on the direction I have begun to research, including my written thesis abstract (listed in the sidebar of links!)

The working title of my thesis is, "Reconstructing Virtual Identities: Investigating Techno Spiritualism, Sexuality, and Sensuality in the Post-Digital Era". At the risk of being repetitive, I will list the main themes and keywords of my focus here: bodies, networks, technology, spirituality, sensuality, extended consciousness, and virtual space. 

So far, these categories have created an excellent spread of incredible theorists, educators, artists, and speculators from whom I have already collected a large number of essays, books, and academic and conference papers. My goal for this blog is to continue these investigations with more introspective readings of the work while collecting more resources. Hopefully, this process will become a fruitful endeavor that yields, in finality, that great chalice of victory... the thesis paper.
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​THESIS ABSTRACT

While my main blog for this site is typically filled with quick updates on my work and research, I will focus the more deep theoretical writings into this side blog; however, I had recently updated the main with a post on the direction I have begun to research, including my written thesis abstract (listed in the sidebar of links!)

The working title of my thesis is, "Reconstructing Virtual Identities: Investigating Techno Spiritualism, Sexuality, and Sensuality in the Post-Digital Era". At the risk of being repetitive, I will list the main themes and keywords of my focus here: bodies, networks, technology, spirituality, sensuality, extended consciousness, and virtual space. 

So far, these categories have created an excellent spread of incredible theorists, educators, artists, and speculators from whom I have already collected a large number of essays, books, and academic and conference papers. My goal for this blog is to continue these investigations with more introspective readings of the work while collecting more resources. Hopefully, this process will become a fruitful endeavor that yields, in finality, that great chalice of victory... the thesis paper.
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​GOALS & DEADLINES

In this endeavor, the main goal is to write, write, write. The focus of this writing is mostly explore the themes introduced through research, but also as a platform for beginning to structure a thesis paper of some educational merit. The other goal is accountability. With any luck, the weight of these goals will create progress that trickles down into something massively well-written and critically engaging (one must hope).

Each week, I will endeavor to post a new entry on a new topic with a new author and new engagement. It's lofty and it just might do the trick. That being stated, this blog probably won't be the paramount standard of research writing expected of someone pursuing an academically publishable piece of work. Nevertheless, it might just serve as a great bibliographic outline. I also will endeavor to link each reading and research with properly attributed citations, albeit lacking in a specific research style.

I also am open to invite engaging conversations on these topics despite my low expectations of participation and generally small broadcasting range (one must dare hope again).

And so with this prologue blog post, I begin my thesis research enterprise boldly going where many have gone before me...