For some reason blogger isn't letting me label anything at the moment.

So I'm going to outline the project labels here, just as a note to myself;

Project 1: Fine Art Yearbook
Project 2: Sylvia Plath
Project 3: American Psycho/The vacuous eighties
Project 4: Will Self
Project 5: Satanism
Project 6: The Waitress
Project 7: DC Publication

Other smaller projects will be labeled as and when they arise blah blah blah. Now I had originally got a set of briefs, but they aren't in keeping with my labelling system. I think that if i come up with a structure for my presentation next week, now, then I will be able to clear my head out.

So...


* Who I am/statement of intent/value as a designer
* What I am interested in(not design specific & in relation to themes on SOI)

--- tie these together with brief choices and themes for research

* Who I am interested in(design specific & work I want to make)

> eye bodega
> VLF
> marcroy smith
> elana shlenker
> ailse one
> ill studio
> ilovedust

--- how will my DC publication pan out

*** chapters ***

literature VS design

maybe one publication that is one way up on one side, then upside down on the other, to show my two influences



Project 1: Fine Art Yearbook * Project 6: The Waitress * Project 7: DC Publication *
Self explanatory


Project 4: Will Self
Prologue to 'My idea of fun'

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: Mortality, the Corpse and the Fiction of Will Self.

- mortality, the corpse and fictionn
- death has replaced sex as 21st century definite taboo
- human corpse becomes increasingly pervasive object of revulsion and attraction in our culture
- a site of anxiety about medicines failure to conquer
- enthusiasm to hide death
- literary autopsy
- distanced from physical process of death
- unprepared to deal with it
- corpse in popular culture
- coronary prose

“… death, and more specifically, our collective need to at once gaze fixedly upon the memento mori of other people’s extinction, while carefully averting our eyes from our own extinction and that of our loved ones.”

- private neuroses

"My Idea of Fun, opens with the narrator declaring to the reader that his “idea of fun” entails decapitating a commuter and “addressing” himself to the corpse. It seems that, in this inaugural passage, Self prophesises one of the recurring themes of his taboo explorations; as a keen psychogeographer, Self seemingly admits that he cannot help but wander into the most widespread of psychic territories in our culture; that of death and the corpse."

I can't remember but I wanted to do something on J'G Ballard

INFLUENCES ON WILL SELF - BALLARD
“Humanity is an atrocity exhibition at which we are unwilling spectators.”

Chapter/story titles

1. The Atrocity Exhibition. New Worlds, Vol. 50, # 166, September 1966 (excerpt).
2. The University of Death. Transatlantic Review, No. 29, London, Summer 1968.
3. The Assassination Weapon. New Worlds,Vol. 50, # 161, April 1966.
4. You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe. Ambit # 27, Spring 1966.
5. Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown. New Worlds July 1967 (excerpt).
6. The Great American Nude. Ambit # 36 Summer 1968.
7. The Summer Cannibals. New Worlds # 186 January 1969.
8. Tolerances of the Human Face. Encounter Vol. 33, No. 3, September 1969.
9. You and Me and the Continuum. Impulse, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1966.
10. Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy. Ambit # 31, Spring 1967.
11. Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. Circuit #6, June 1968.
12. Crash! ICA-Eventsheet February 1969 (excerpt).
13. The Generations of America. New Worlds # 183, October 1968.
14. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan. Brighton: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968
15. The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race. Ambit # 29, Autumn 1966.

below are books i have ordered in order to help me with my study...

Project 2: Sylvia Plath
Project 3: American Psycho/The vacuous eighties

Project 5: Satanism