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Thesis Outline

The anticipated form of thesis:

the narrative story introduced to the reader by mixed visual means and conventions: a comic book, en essay, and an obscene medieval manuscript.

The subject matter:

This short essay will offer the illustrated analyze of the mechanizes of social exclusion and immaterial injustice through the lens of media and new-economy theories (with some special regards to pornographic aspects of the disfigured human body.)

The time of action:

The Dark Ages of the future | the author will combine the futuristic scenario with a medieval aesthetic of illustrations.

The place of action:

An empty port city where the transit, processing, storage, and export of immaterial goods take place.

The plot:

The group of homeless hybrids tries to survive in the post-urban area of the port. Among them we meet: the blind pirate without health benefits, the unemployed third-wave prostitute, the bankrupted spiritual leader, the highly inflammable witch, the schizophrenic stockbroker, the old fisherman with a broken rod and the Nobel prize, and the desperate environmental activist who tries to grow potatoes inside of his stomach.

The port dwellers are the last visible creatures: marginalized, pauperized, yet still partly equipped in organic body parts. Surrounded by the fully automated reality they stay hidden in order to survive. Otherwise they would be sniffed out by the processing machinery and turned into the royal soufflés. (In the world of organic deficiency every protein source is priceless; it is instantly detected, processed, and delivered to the ruling class of a few ordinateurs.) Hybrid outcasts once aspired to immaterial middle class, but now after many years devoted to the vagabond lifestyle, they have fallen into decadent mode of existing; they decadently parasite on high-tech urban infrastructure of the port. We learn about their stories from the narrator, the recent incomer and the main protagonist of the story- the woman, Giovanna Cenani, who fell out of the Flemish stolen painting that had been illegally and tax-free stored in the free-port city for decades…

Bibilography:

Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language
Matteo Pasquinelli, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons
Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
Maurizio Lazzarato, Immaterial Labor
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Bio-Politics
John Russell, SQRRL
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
Ferdinand Tonnies, Community and Civil Society
?Elinor Ostrom, Essay Collection

Prose:

Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Albert Camus, The Plague
Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

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+=== '''Thesis Outline''' ===
-In my thesis paper I would like to carry out a critical analyse of two basic component of human interaction: stealing and sharing. Common understanding places sharing and stealing on the opposite ethical poles; first one is seen as undoubtedly righteous behaviour while the second is perceived as an immoral and illegal act. I will develop the argument that the ethical, social, and economical evaluation of these two concepts is, if not always has been, problematic. Both of these acts carry fixed, seemingly contrary, values that tend to interchange and shift accordingly to the political and economical circumstances. I will also drag my reader trough the historical, philosophical, and religious aspects of these two in order to finally focus on the crucial role of stealing and sharing in the space of the World Wild Web operating accordingly to murky rules of the new economy. I will consider theirs rebellious potential against economical exploitation as well as the ideological value for communal coexistence. My field of research is going to be dangerously broad; I plan to take a closer look at Jesus Christ biography in order to explain the mechanisms of the gift-, sharing- economical models; I will use the classical sociological thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Lock to question some democratic values of sharing and elaborate on the economical notion of game theory; I will investigate the traumas of my personal Soviet childhood to prove that sharing is the an egoistic and vicious act against others, stealing however has constructive ability to fight the twisted system, and finally I shall discuses the tragedy of the commons basing on the Internet peer-to-peer initiatives. After many pages of writing I will spontaneously discover that my way of thinking seems to be a bit too conservative if not imperialist-capitalistic and so, in panic, I will conclude that the meaning of both, sharing and stealing; good or evil, can be easily twisted by the invisible and greedy hands of countless CIO, CFO and CAO’s and corrupted by the mysterious factor called the human nature.  In a mean time I will provide reader with some observation on convulsive gesture of sharing that causes the mental pollution and economical damages across lands and forests of the media landscape and , consequently, I will give my blessing to stealing as a purifying force putting it back to moderate state of harmony.
-The anticipated form of my “essay”: a comic book / obscene medieval manuscript + lazy manifesto.
+'''The anticipated form of thesis:'''
+the narrative story introduced to the reader by mixed visual means and conventions: a comic book, en essay, and an obscene medieval manuscript.
+'''The subject matter:'''
+This short essay will offer the illustrated analyze of the mechanizes of social exclusion and immaterial injustice through the lens of media and new-economy theories (with some special regards to pornographic aspects of the disfigured human body.)
+'''The time of action:'''
+The Dark Ages of the future | the author will combine the futuristic scenario with a medieval aesthetic of illustrations.
+'''The place of action:'''
+An empty port city where the transit, processing, storage, and export of immaterial goods take place.
+'''The plot:'''
+The group of homeless hybrids tries to survive in the post-urban area of the port. Among them we meet: the blind pirate without health benefits, the unemployed third-wave prostitute, the bankrupted spiritual leader, the highly inflammable witch, the schizophrenic stockbroker, the old fisherman with a broken rod and the Nobel prize, and the desperate environmental activist who tries to grow potatoes inside of his stomach.
+The port dwellers are the last visible creatures: marginalized, pauperized, yet still partly equipped in organic body parts. Surrounded by the fully automated reality they stay hidden in order to survive. Otherwise they would be sniffed out by the processing machinery and turned into the royal soufflés. (In the world of organic deficiency every protein source is priceless; it is instantly detected, processed, and delivered to the ruling class of a few ordinateurs.)
+Hybrid outcasts once aspired to immaterial middle class, but now after many years devoted to the vagabond lifestyle, they have fallen into decadent mode of existing; they decadently parasite on high-tech urban infrastructure of the port.  We learn about their stories from the narrator, the recent incomer and the main protagonist of the story- the woman, Giovanna Cenani, who fell out of the Flemish stolen painting that had been illegally and tax-free stored in the free-port city for decades…
+'''Bibilography:'''
+* Christian Marazzi, Capital and Language
+* Matteo Pasquinelli, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons
+* Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
+* Maurizio Lazzarato, Immaterial Labor
+* Michel Foucault, The Birth of Bio-Politics
+* John Russell, SQRRL
+* David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
+* Ferdinand Tonnies, Community and Civil Society
+* ?Elinor Ostrom, Essay Collection
+'''Prose:'''
+* Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
+* Albert Camus, The Plague
+* Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics