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<div style="background-color:lavender-blush; padding:3px;">[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/GradProposal_Draft_01 <big>'''Draft Pad'''</big>]</div> | <div style="background-color:lavender-blush; padding:3px;">[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/GradProposal_Draft_01 <big>'''Draft Pad'''</big>]</div> | ||
<u>'''✼ What do you want to make? ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ What do you want to make? ✼'''</u> === | ||
Protocols for Magic ✧ An illustrated publication on Magic Systems for application in everyday life. Based on my thesis research on Magic as a mode of thinking/making/doing, I want to create experimental frameworks for ritual magic based on the concept of literary magic systems. All inspired by real and fictional magic, esoteric and occult theories and ritual believes. | Protocols for Magic ✧ An illustrated publication on Magic Systems for application in everyday life. Based on my thesis research on Magic as a mode of thinking/making/doing, I want to create experimental frameworks for ritual magic based on the concept of literary magic systems. All inspired by real and fictional magic, esoteric and occult theories and ritual believes. | ||
<u>'''✼ How do you plan to make it? ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ How do you plan to make it? ✼'''</u> === | ||
# Thesis - Literature review and references analysis | # Thesis - Literature review and references analysis | ||
# Prototyping systems - Templates/Exercises/Games/Riddles/Texts | # Prototyping systems - Templates/Exercises/Games/Riddles/Texts | ||
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<u>'''✼ What is your timetable? ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ What is your timetable? ✼'''</u> === | ||
* Initial Research (overlapping) | * Initial Research (overlapping) | ||
** Thesis Reference and Literature: ~ 2 months | ** Thesis Reference and Literature: ~ 2 months | ||
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<u>'''✼ Why do you want to make it? ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ Why do you want to make it? ✼'''</u> === | ||
I have always been deeply fascinated by all types of religion, esotericism, the occult and most of all, anything adjacent to '''Magic''' in its many forms. | I have always been deeply fascinated by all types of religion, esotericism, the occult and most of all, anything adjacent to '''Magic''' in its many forms. | ||
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<u>'''✼ Who can help you and how? ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ Who can help you and how? ✼'''</u> === | ||
'''Dr. Justin Sledge''' - Esoterica (YouTube channel) = I would really like to contact him and ask many questions in regards to Magic practices of the past and his philosophical views on the matter. (maybe maybe) | '''Dr. Justin Sledge''' - Esoterica (YouTube channel) = I would really like to contact him and ask many questions in regards to Magic practices of the past and his philosophical views on the matter. (maybe maybe) | ||
<u>'''✼ Relation to previous practice ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ Relation to previous practice ✼'''</u> === | ||
* BA Project (expand..) | * BA Project (expand..) | ||
* Ornamenta | * Ornamenta | ||
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* ... | * ... | ||
=== <u>'''✼ Relation to a larger context ✼'''</u> === | |||
<u>'''✼ Relation to a larger context ✼'''</u> | |||
* End stage capitalism and the rise of Science as religious dogma, actual religious extremism and an explosion of new (age) religions, especially neo-pagan movement | * End stage capitalism and the rise of Science as religious dogma, actual religious extremism and an explosion of new (age) religions, especially neo-pagan movement | ||
* Prescriptive, hierarchical and propagandist aspects of all-mentioned-above | * Prescriptive, hierarchical and propagandist aspects of all-mentioned-above | ||
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* (...) | * (...) | ||
<u>'''✼ References ✼'''</u> | === <u>'''✼ References ✼'''</u> === | ||
* Dukes, R. (2000). '''SSOTBME Revised - an essay on magic''.', The Mouse That Spins, England. (ISBN: 1-903548-00-4) | * Dukes, R. (2000). '''SSOTBME Revised - an essay on magic''.', The Mouse That Spins, England. (ISBN: 1-903548-00-4) | ||
* Dk (2020). ''<nowiki/>'History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult.''' Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated. (ISBN: 978-0-2413-8611-8) | * Dk (2020). ''<nowiki/>'History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult.''' Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated. (ISBN: 978-0-2413-8611-8) | ||
Revision as of 16:22, 9 October 2025
Project Proposal ~ DRAFT
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✧ Draft #1 ✧
✼ What do you want to make? ✼
Protocols for Magic ✧ An illustrated publication on Magic Systems for application in everyday life. Based on my thesis research on Magic as a mode of thinking/making/doing, I want to create experimental frameworks for ritual magic based on the concept of literary magic systems. All inspired by real and fictional magic, esoteric and occult theories and ritual believes.
✼ How do you plan to make it? ✼
- Thesis - Literature review and references analysis
- Prototyping systems - Templates/Exercises/Games/Riddles/Texts
- Testing - Workshops/Feedback Sessions/Other
- Presenting - Textual + Visual
- ...
✼ What is your timetable? ✼
- Initial Research (overlapping)
- Thesis Reference and Literature: ~ 2 months
- Prototyping + Test sessions: 2-3 months
- Reflections and Refinements: 1-2months
- Publication: 1<2 months
✼ Why do you want to make it? ✼
I have always been deeply fascinated by all types of religion, esotericism, the occult and most of all, anything adjacent to Magic in its many forms.
(...)
In another life I might have taken the chance to do a dual degree and study either art history or religious studies and gone on to do a Master in Western Esotericism, or the like. Alas, I chose Illustration because I loved drawing most of all.
✼ Who can help you and how? ✼
Dr. Justin Sledge - Esoterica (YouTube channel) = I would really like to contact him and ask many questions in regards to Magic practices of the past and his philosophical views on the matter. (maybe maybe)
✼ Relation to previous practice ✼
- BA Project (expand..)
- Ornamenta
- Sneaking-in occult symbolism in all my work
- Publications based on supernatural or superstitious themes
- ...
✼ Relation to a larger context ✼
- End stage capitalism and the rise of Science as religious dogma, actual religious extremism and an explosion of new (age) religions, especially neo-pagan movement
- Prescriptive, hierarchical and propagandist aspects of all-mentioned-above
- Human yearn for Magic (explain..)
- (...)
✼ References ✼
- Dukes, R. (2000). 'SSOTBME Revised - an essay on magic.', The Mouse That Spins, England. (ISBN: 1-903548-00-4)
- Dk (2020). 'History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult.' Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated. (ISBN: 978-0-2413-8611-8)
- Nataf, A. (1990). 'Les Maîtres de l’occultisme.' , France Loisirs, (ISBN: 978-2724250015)
- Haute, L. O., (2023) ' talismans pour celles qui ne savent pas de quoi ils parlent' (translation: Talismans for the ones who don't know what they talk about)
- Per Faxneld (2017). ' Satanic feminism: Lucifer as the liberator of woman in nineteenth-century culture ', New York, Ny: Oxford University Press.
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