MONDAY APRIL 2 PRESENTATION TASKS

Thanks for coming up with interesting research and cool presentations.
(Hazel, Priyam, Khushboo - you need to move towards objects.)

Here are your tasks for Monday, April 2.

1. Go through the two readings (attached to this mail):
(a) The Uncanny - Sigmund Freud
(b) The Reality of the Unseen - William James.
Highlight paragraphs, sections, sentences which you think relate to our theme of Animism. Think of qualities and properties that relate to artefacts or can be related to artefacts.
2. Come up with a presentation that provokes discussion centred
around the following notions:
a. What is the "essence" of my being?
b. What are the criteria/qualities/properties by which anything can be termed as " living". Illustrate visually with notes going across humans, animals, birds, reptiles, organisms, plants, materials, objects. Draw up similarities and differences.
c. What is sentience and how do we recognise sentience in any thing?
3. One of our objectives is that every team has a good database of objects/atefacts that you collect and collate (visually or in reality). Each object must be accompanied by notes that tell about a characteristic, quality, function, colour, texture, tactility, responiveness, behaviour which you believe brings it "alive" and where animism is at work in terms of its relationship with human beings. Take this collection/collation seriously and build this up so we can take a look at the entire collection on Wednesday.
Captain Furry