To successfully complete the perspectives project, I must use theories discussed in seminars to interpret an example of contemporary visual culture of my choice. Currently, I find myself focusing on structuralism within modernism and its idea of understanding the absolute truth through systems and structures. I find this definition intriguingly similar to the definition of Morpheme which has no smaller part, a base form and the absolute truth in regards to morphology?
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| An image displaying a link between modernism and morphology. Structuralism alongside the Morpheme. Francis Golton alongside Vladmir Propp. |
Below, some research into these areas of interest. Starting with modernism as the over-arching thought process:
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Modernism and Structuralism Research.
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| Structuralism and Eugenics, and Francis Golton Research. |
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| Eugenics Research. |
Terminology:
- Hyperreality
- intertextuality
- metanarrative
- Nihilism
- Multiplicity
- The monomyth
- Morpheme
- Morphology
- Narrateme
- Eugenics
- Fascism
- Communism
- Capitalism
- Neoliberalism
- Fordism
- hauntology
- Individualism
- Teleological
- montage cinema
- Cubism
- Stream of Consciousness
- Atonal music
- surrealism
- Futurism
- Dadaism
- Formalism
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