Part of my course is the insistence that we find a spree of work out there in the big bad world over the summer. I started sending off my CV quite early and made a portfolio site to put something out there, I applied to a lot of companies and chased up a few of that number. I’m pretty chuffed with the results I got, the 3 companies I followed up to the point of interview have all accepted me. So I’m working with a group called Attic Media, in the creative department, Zonica who are a much smaller company who will teach me more about Stategy and Technical aspects and then today with Worthers in Bristol who I really just applied to because they are linked with the 24/7 prayer movement in the UK.
I’ve got 11 weeks lined up on paper so that is.. my summer holiday unfortunately but I should come back off it tight as a nut for my final year. I’m still stumped for ideas concerning my final major project and have an inkling to do with my dissertation. I was thinking something like.. you know those business survival exercises you get given for group building? Well I might work in something like that.. your ship sinks at sea and you can only take so many people all of them unique and will effect group dynamics.. you can also take a selection of items too. Your survivors then end up on the island and you then have to manage the survivors community.. resources, skills, personality types, conflicts and their general survival and decide do they make do with what they got or try and escape?
Maybe in flash or unity with a website with helpful suggestions to the simulation or information/ideas on what helps people get on well together and also you know.. what makes a community work? The use of resources and our typical priorities might be interesting to then compare with say the conditions some people have to live with in the third world or some such and through playing the simulation people would witness perhaps the conditions people would have to endure in less fortunate circumstances. I might indulge myself here and use it as a way of raising awareness about this issues and then perhaps include an area in which people can look at Charity’s who would have something to say on the issues raised in the simulation. What do you think?
I’m thinking maybe dissertation wise.. well initially how has Burma’s international relations been affected by New Media in the last 5 years.. a lot’s happened there and it might be interesting..
Or alternatively.. I mean the question which really friggin’ bugs me sometimes is the fact that we are told in the lecture “there is no truth!” and yet we get marked on how well we answer questions set to us or understand particular ideas.. thats just stupid! How are you meant to reflect how well you understand Foucault’s argument that it’s impossible to understand a text because there is no absolute meaning?? Why do university’s exist? Shouldn’t they be called multiversitys or diversitys or pluraversitys?? University’s suggest there is a unified sense in knowing to be learnt at such a place. There is no truth, you can’t understand what I’m saying! Thats right! you can’t understand what you’re reading right now!
So why can’t I write a dissertation on a question like.. whats the friggin implications of the ‘loss of truth’ the ‘death of God’ the ‘end of history’ and whether truth really, really is dead.. you know.. it’s got nothing and everything to do with my flipping subject.. theres just no point talking about anything if truth really is dead. It’s absurd to think a university dissertation is worth talking about New Media or anything if the starting premises is that communication is impossible and that life is only about the pursuit of power and exploitation of everyone but me.. if that is the case.. why am I wasting my time at uni? why would I want to write a dissertation?? And at the same time everything is fleeting and meaningless.. you either screw everyone else and exert complete control and destroy yourself in the process.. or just adopt some sort of pseudo-Buddhist annihiliationism.. whats the point in saying anything? doing anything? Theres only silence and a void. Surely if I can’t speak on such things I’m only at Uni to be brain washed and normalised into the absurdity of this screwed up world.
