User:Charlie/Graduate Proposal

Graduate Proposal ~ DRAFT

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✧ Grad Proposal Exercises ✧

Exercise Draft #1

✧ Work out a PMOMM into a Graduate Proposal format ✧

✼ What is it? ✼

An illustrated publication superstitions. More specifically, a look at the history and origin of a selection of superstitions and the function of superstition in a social context. Additionally, the publication could have a concluding chapter on fictitious superstitions of the future, considering the framework in which superstition emerge and speculating on which and how contemporary/current believes could evolve in the possible superstitions in the future.

✼ Why make it? ✼

What draws me to this project is my ongoing fascination for the social-cultural narratives and their implications that contain elements of superstition and/or supernatural belief. Knowing that many superstitions originated in contexts and for reasons that are largely forgotten today, yet the superstitions remain anchored in our collective consciousness (whether one believes in them or not).

Another prior interest of mine and motivating factor relates to conspiracy theories. Especially what I would regard as "gateway" conspiracies — Seemingly harmless conspiracy theories which can potentially make their believers more receptive to greater, more complex and more insidious conspiracy theories.

I believe conspiracy theories have some commonalities with superstitions.

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✼ Personal Reader ✼

➸ Rapid prototypes

Exercise Draft #2