Tuesday, October 31, 2006

COGNITIVE INTERFACES, IFA HERMENEUTICS AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF LANDSCAPE IN THE WORK OF SUSANNE WENGER ANDKATHERINE MALTWOOD

COMPREHENSIVE WORKING OUTLINE

Chapter 1:
A. Statement of Purpose

B. Justification of Purpose

Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework and Methodology

A. Exposition of Theoretical Framework

a. The Hermeneutic Process in Ifa Divination

b. Communities as Mental Entities/Mental Units in Relation to Interpretive Communities and their Members

c. Creative Dynamics in the Artistic Processes of Wenger and Maltwood

B. Exposition and Justification of Methodology

a. Quaternary Correlation between

b. The Individualunderstood as

b.1.The Temporal Conscious self

b.2.The Atemporal Unconscious Self

c. The Individual's Interpretive Community

d. The Phenomena Engaged with by the Individual in the Context of their Interpretive Community

e. The Expression of the Confluence Between Individual Predisposition,Social Influences and Landscape Forms in the Creation of and Symbolic Resonance Realised through Works of Art

Chapter 3:Wenger and the Oshun Forest

A. The Orisanla Shrine

a. The Orisanla Sculpture

b. The Pot at the Orisanla Shrine

c. The Orisanla Shrine House

B. The Iya Mopo Space:the Holy Potter’s Field

a. The Chameleon Gate

b. Iya Mopo

c. Ela

d. Alajere
IFA HERMENEUTICS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF LANDSCAPE IN THE THE ARTISTIC WORK OF SUSANNE WENGER AND KATHERINE MALTWOOD

Basic Working Outline

Chapter 1:

A. Dialogue between Modes of Being and Forms of Knowledge

B. Epistemo-Biographical Orientations and Lacunae in Wenger and Maltwood Scholarship

Chapter 2:

Ifa Hermeneutics as Transformative Spiral Mediating Between Ontological and Discursive Forms

Chapter 3:

The Oshun Forest as Site of Ideational and Material Transformation by Atelier Wenger

Chapter 4:

Katherine Maltwood's and Mary Caine's Cartographic and Ideational Reconstruction of the Glastonbury Landscape

Chapter 5:

Cognitive Agents and Cognitive Forms: Paradoxical Convergences
Dear PhD consultants,

Good afternoon.
I hope the week has been fruitful and the weekend is going well.

I would like to introduce you to the latest stage in my experimentation with the idea of your having online access to my work via a site that is open to only the three of us.
It’s a blog which I am developing as a means of making my work more readily accessible for your viewing and responses. The privacy of the project is protected by the blog function that allows only those I choose to access it.

Even though I am enthusiastic about the medium, its use would depend on whether or not you are comfortable with it. The blog has a function that will allow only those I choose to access it.

Its use would allow you rapid access to my work as I develop it. It will enable you see the latest stage of the work at any point in time. It will provide an overview of the development of the project at any stage, thereby facilitating an orientation to the various sub-units of the research project and of the manner in which they are interrelated.

This mode of presentation would go with the unspoken understanding that the project is still in progress and therefore under supervision by you. The use of this medium would not imply that I regard the work presented in this form as definitive. That would defeat the rationale of supervision by senior scholars. Along those lines, your comments on the posts are eagerly sought. These comments could be sent via the comments option at the bottom of the postings. You will be able to see the posting you want to comment upon on the left hand side of the comments page as you make your comments. That implies that you will be able to stay on the same page as you make your comments without having to switch from the comments page to the text you are commenting on. You will also be able to preview your comments before you post them and read them after posting.
If you wish to use the facilities in Word as means of critiquing the texts, then you could save the posting by me to Word, make comments on the Word text, and send the response to me by email or post it onto the comments option at the bottom of the post(I am not sure, though, if the latter will allow the migration of all the editing functions in Word).

This mode of communication will enable us to have on the same site, the postings by me, your comments on the text posted as well as my response to those comments and the reflections of that exchange in the relevant sections of the dissertation.

The blog presents posts by placing the first post at the bottom and the others on top of that till we get to the latest. So the first posting you see will be the last that was placed online while the last one, at the bottom, will be the first posted. All the postings will indicate the date and time of posting. It seems, however, that the timer used is not set to the time in England.

I would be pleased if you let me have any comments or suggestions on this initiative.
Thank you.
Toyin