User:Kul/proposal
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