User:Charlie/Graduate Proposal
Project Proposal ~ DRAFT
✧ 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.
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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..)
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✼ 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.