Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Brief Description of Thesis;

I Don't currently have a title for my Thesis. Also, its a bit tricky after writing over three thousand words to write a couple of sentences, because the titles of the subjects we talk (type*) about most probably mount up to a hundred words without any description, shit or amazing, i do apologise if you cant make any sense out of where i'm trying to go, i don't even really know myself, YET.

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" The sort of architectural spaces we inhabit are enormously important - they are powerful. If every member of the human race where to vanish, our successors from another planet could reconstitute psychology of the people on this planet from its architecture." J.G Ballard.

Evidently my Thesis revolves around the dialectics of architectural space, i will discuss the components of culture which relate to the space in question, these will consist of the a few individual topics, begining with discussing a dominant theory which shines through my whole thesis; Architectural Uncanny both Anthony Vidler and Freud, i will use these texts as a constructive critique for Gaston Bachelards, Poetics of Space. Accessing a theoretical approach to the enviroment of the domestic, the pyschoanalytical method will arise concerns of Sexuality in relation to space, 'identity around the self, the other, the body and its absence', the queering of space, the pleasure in domesticity, and Space & time in relation to place. Other supporting themes which will structure my thesis are, Phylis Palmers Dirt & Domesticity; Housewives in the 1950's, The majority of Judith Butlers Theories, Jacques Derrida, Claud Levi Strauss approach on Anthropology and the body in the home etc, Spaces of Abjection, Screening space; what is visible.How meaning is produced by dividing the world into mutually exclusive categories, such as Culture/Nature, Man/Woman, Interior/exterior, Us/Them etc. Traditional values. A overveiw would probably consist of an analysis of the Old Condition Vs Modern Condition with architecture and space, the way the evolution of culture mirrors the modern condition, vice versa.

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