User:Claxhanson/Thesisoutline

GENERAL INTENTIONS

This is the continuation of the research I have started, "A dictatorship in twilight" during Special Issue #11 : Post-digital itch.

INFRASTRUCTURE & CORRUPTION

I want to explore how nation-states restrict flows of communication, monitor content, and promote certain parameters of ‘social order’ through the tactical corruption of infrastructure.

Along with the growth of the thesis, I will be observing through the cross-examination and juxtaposition methods pre-developed for my project to constitute the chapters of this.

I didn’t want my research to be an all-around the globe sort of thing, like adding a pin on the map in the toilets to keep a collection of all the places I’ve been through. Also, in order not to sound like a paternalist ethnologist or a preachy tourist, I have decided to follow as a guidance line the history that I have been fed with since childhood and up until now.

The quesited projects will be purposely chosen for this thesis to be a stand-alone project.

Can we recognize the symptoms of a power unit that weaponizes infrastructures to corrupt them ? (the answer will be a yes) And if so, what exactly are these dynamics ? How can we categorize them to better identify them, and then work around them ?

I will be using this CARE SHEET system of juxtaposition and cross-examination as a methodology to investigate and exemplify what might also be considered or infra-structural corruptions within the material world, the online arena, and in the intersection between the two.

The goal is to make a series of stories, a series of "maquettes", that would be a direct translation of the violence of some architectural infrastructures into digital shapes, and use the ones that have been explored in. They will all be gathered as part of one bigger story, as a mode of historicizing these pervasive tactics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5-qVUMqfQ
("I don't give a rat’s ass I’m an anarchist and I want to screw up the whole capitalist society")
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OUTLINE

See how the thesis outline was generated

I can’t really lay out the thesis at this exact moment, because it will be written in a non-linear way, and one of the modules in the program will shape them to into a solid narrative, but this will only shape into its firm form around December. Here are some key elements that I am focusing on at the moment.

RESEARCH UNIT: A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS WORTH A BATTALION The French empire builder Hubert Lyautey. Key strategist of French colonialism, and the Architecture of Protectorate during French Settlement in post-colonial Morocco

For the moment I have already started a few chapters, but I need to focus on the structure before I really understand what the chapters will be made of.