Or, how many ways can you skin a dead cat?
Or... how many ways can an alien analyze an animated robot?
HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU ANALYSE LIFE?
Or also known as- ART. We create our lives, don’t we? We create Art as well. We create memories, colors, things and emotions. We create ourselves.
Unfortunately, as we get older, we start losing our confidence and the ability to trust our instincts. This results in tendency of overthinking and analysis of certain phenomena, actions and usually- other individuals. We could talk about the negativity of this and the damage that we make to ourselves, however I would like to discuss the action of analysis itself. I can tell from my own experience how phenomenal the results of deep analysis could be, regardless who or what you are analyzing. But the question is: do we do it right? How many methods of analysis are there?
Some people counted, so I will tell you the methods. However, naming them is one thing but using them as a source and method is completely different.
Historical Marxism
Political Frankfurt School
Psychological Critical Theory
Sociological Capitalism
Psychoanalysis Commodification
Feminism Postcolonial Criticism
Gender Studies
Semiotics
Aesthetics
Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy
Technological, Apparatus Theory
Ethnographic
Anthropological
Literary Theory
Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Narratology
Hermeneutics
Philosophical Ethics., Affect/Effect
Formalist film theory, Genre Studies
Iconic Analysis
Amateur Theory
Phenomenology
Quantitative Research
Data Collection and Analysis
Positivism, Empirical
Observation, Interviews
Post Modernism
Structuralism, Post- structuralism
Deconstructivism
Action Research
Exploratory Practice
Sometimes we do it deliberately, sometimes- without even realizing, however we always do it- analyzing. No matter how smart are human beings, we simply can’t understand everything by the first sight, therefore our brains requires more information to be able to find an explanation/reason/origin of certain things or actions.
In my opinion, it’s easier to live for some people. For those, who often don’t care about many things, who don’t think twice, who are kind of shallow. To be honest, I feel a bit jealous of them. They do not feel the need of analyzing everything, which makes their existence much lighter. However, these people lose the chance to experience one of the most extraordinary feelings in life- the excitement of finding and exploring! How much more you can find out when you dig into the grounds of information! How many different points of view you can discover! You expand your knowledge, broad you horizons, step over stereotypes and, most importantly, you begin to feel competent enough to share your findings with others.
Of course, it’s kind of sad that nowadays the process of RESEARCH contains surfing the net, scrolling down various websites instead of going to libraries, archive centers or etc. It’s much easier this way, and we should appreciate it, however I feel that easy finding and fast information deprives a bit of excitement from us. Sitting with your laptop in a café is not the same as walking in gloaming corridors of the library and flipping through the dusty pages of some amazingly wise philosopher’s book!
And the research it self gets more simple, less complex and more superficial. In order to get everything done faster, we tend to detect one reliable source or method and use it throughout the whole project/work we have to do and we add other sources as secondary and less important. In my opinion, whatever you are analyzing, you have to rely on a variety different sources, methods, opinions in order to fully understand the subject of your analysis and successfully present it in your work. It goes without saying that it is extremely hard to maintain your attention and focus on several different methods and combine them while giving your own critical overview. But I believe this is the only way to make your examination professional and deep.
I was aware of the fact that there are many methods to analyze certain things. However, it never crossed my mind that there is one particular method, which could help me take a brand new/ different look at the phenomenon of my interest. A lecturer in my university suggested an interesting and helpful way: to try imagine that you see 'this' thing for the very first time. You have no primary attitude, no assumptions, nothing. Just pretend you don't have a thought in the world and just see what is in front of you. Get raw with your instincts, imagination and thinking. What do YOU see?
Or... how many ways can an alien analyze an animated robot?
HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU ANALYSE LIFE?
Or also known as- ART. We create our lives, don’t we? We create Art as well. We create memories, colors, things and emotions. We create ourselves.
Unfortunately, as we get older, we start losing our confidence and the ability to trust our instincts. This results in tendency of overthinking and analysis of certain phenomena, actions and usually- other individuals. We could talk about the negativity of this and the damage that we make to ourselves, however I would like to discuss the action of analysis itself. I can tell from my own experience how phenomenal the results of deep analysis could be, regardless who or what you are analyzing. But the question is: do we do it right? How many methods of analysis are there?
Some people counted, so I will tell you the methods. However, naming them is one thing but using them as a source and method is completely different.
Historical Marxism
Political Frankfurt School
Psychological Critical Theory
Sociological Capitalism
Psychoanalysis Commodification
Feminism Postcolonial Criticism
Gender Studies
Semiotics
Aesthetics
Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy
Technological, Apparatus Theory
Ethnographic
Anthropological
Literary Theory
Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Narratology
Hermeneutics
Philosophical Ethics., Affect/Effect
Formalist film theory, Genre Studies
Iconic Analysis
Amateur Theory
Phenomenology
Quantitative Research
Data Collection and Analysis
Positivism, Empirical
Observation, Interviews
Post Modernism
Structuralism, Post- structuralism
Deconstructivism
Action Research
Exploratory Practice
Sometimes we do it deliberately, sometimes- without even realizing, however we always do it- analyzing. No matter how smart are human beings, we simply can’t understand everything by the first sight, therefore our brains requires more information to be able to find an explanation/reason/origin of certain things or actions.
In my opinion, it’s easier to live for some people. For those, who often don’t care about many things, who don’t think twice, who are kind of shallow. To be honest, I feel a bit jealous of them. They do not feel the need of analyzing everything, which makes their existence much lighter. However, these people lose the chance to experience one of the most extraordinary feelings in life- the excitement of finding and exploring! How much more you can find out when you dig into the grounds of information! How many different points of view you can discover! You expand your knowledge, broad you horizons, step over stereotypes and, most importantly, you begin to feel competent enough to share your findings with others.
Of course, it’s kind of sad that nowadays the process of RESEARCH contains surfing the net, scrolling down various websites instead of going to libraries, archive centers or etc. It’s much easier this way, and we should appreciate it, however I feel that easy finding and fast information deprives a bit of excitement from us. Sitting with your laptop in a café is not the same as walking in gloaming corridors of the library and flipping through the dusty pages of some amazingly wise philosopher’s book!
And the research it self gets more simple, less complex and more superficial. In order to get everything done faster, we tend to detect one reliable source or method and use it throughout the whole project/work we have to do and we add other sources as secondary and less important. In my opinion, whatever you are analyzing, you have to rely on a variety different sources, methods, opinions in order to fully understand the subject of your analysis and successfully present it in your work. It goes without saying that it is extremely hard to maintain your attention and focus on several different methods and combine them while giving your own critical overview. But I believe this is the only way to make your examination professional and deep.
I was aware of the fact that there are many methods to analyze certain things. However, it never crossed my mind that there is one particular method, which could help me take a brand new/ different look at the phenomenon of my interest. A lecturer in my university suggested an interesting and helpful way: to try imagine that you see 'this' thing for the very first time. You have no primary attitude, no assumptions, nothing. Just pretend you don't have a thought in the world and just see what is in front of you. Get raw with your instincts, imagination and thinking. What do YOU see?