Community Discourse

Assignment 4: Community Discourse

0. ‘Add to your widesite the documentation of an exemplary story from your community, that is a story about a person or event that your community identifies with and tells about itself in its celebrations, festivals, naming practices (of streets, buildings, parks), memorials.’ 
   

0. EXERCISE 15: THE QUEST SCHEMA 

0. “Look again at the entertainment narrative your represented in your mystory. See if you can locate in its plot the stages of the initiation quest, as demonstrated in Voytilla’s description of Silence.” 
   

0. EXERCISE 16: ON THE PREMISES 
1. ‘Do an analysis of your Entertainment narrative in terms of sender and receiver. Try to describe the value/power working in the diegesis, using the form of premise and central idea. Relate the premise to the ideological categories of identity you noted in your Family story’ 
2. Again, this one comes back to computers. They have played a massively dominant part in my life. Throughout each of these exercises, almost every one without fail is about computers. If its not, its because I specifically wanted to do something else to show that I'm not a robot.

0. EXERCISE 17: HIGH CONCEPT 
1. ‘Review the documentation of the three main assignments (treating the discourses of Career, Family, Community History). Select one person or character who appears in the documents for each discourse and state their relationship in the style of high concept.’ 
2. Wasn't it obvious? Of course I was going to pick a computer for this exercise. I've loved this image since I was a little kid. I think I first saw it on a T-Shirt, and it cracks me up. Obviously they are the wave of the NOW.
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   EXERCISE 18: LYRIC EVALUATION 
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   “Write down the lyrics of a favorite song and analyze the relationship between the narrative situation of the lyrics and the atmosphere of the music. Make explicit what the music style is saying about the theme expressed in the words.” 
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   EXERCISE 19: BEING SINGULAR 
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   ‘Try to sort out your experience and behavior along the lines of the predominant mode associated with each apparatus, to notice group feelings (oral), individuality (an inner private self, ‘character’), and what Agamben calls ‘singularity’ (behaving as an image).’