This project proposal is at the very start of my MLA program. As I am pursuing this program running through one class per semester, the program timeline for me is the maximum five years permitted.<\/p>\n
‘The Epistemological Crisis’ is a somewhat ephemeral concept, as such, the project will be rooted in an exploratory perspective. A further framework for this is the concept of “thin description<\/em>” and “distant reading<\/em>” introduced to me earlier in the semester. This is possibly to Dr. Hocutt’s contradictory advice that the project may benefit from a narrow and thick description instead.<\/p>\n MLA 500 is the first time I have worked with the UR WordPress Blogs. My brief experience working with it this semester leads me to believe that it may be both flexible and robust enough to serve as a platform of an autoethnographic method.<\/p>\n I’ll try and explain the rationale more thoroughly in the research proposal, but the short version is that because I am within and believe the E-crisis is real, an autoethnographic method is way to be ‘radically transparent’ and honest with the research.<\/p>\n The EE Crisis Blog<\/a><\/p>\n There are two main methods under the rubric of historical \/ rhetorical research and analysis I am looking at for this project.<\/p>\n I. Narrative Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n I believe the power of story making \/ telling (narrative) is an often underappreciated feature in the formation of beliefs \/ knowledge. At much of the core of the E-crisis (or at least what I assume I will be able to demonstrate) is the ‘culture war’ or, more basically, a differentiated aesthetic between and among groups.<\/p>\n More than content (facts and reason), narrative is an important framing characteristic which both effects and is effected by author \/ audience epistemological factors.<\/p>\n II. Ideological Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the method which will be (I speculate) the dominant mode.<\/p>\n As such, it provide the insight for the\u00a0unit of analysis<\/em> I have been struggling with – namely that of the ideograph. Not a single specific ideograph, but ideographs across several (‘thin and distant’)<\/em> topics.<\/p>\n It appears to me (and is a feature of what I call the Epistemological Crisis) that it is ideograph opposition that is a defining feature. It is opposition to an ideograph (or more accurately – a group representing an ideograph) that is the defining feature. For example, as a member of UR’s ‘White Anti-Racism’ group, right within the name is the feature at the fore – being opposed to (what\u00a0could\u00a0<\/em> be considered an ideograph). On the ‘other side’ are people who don’t necessarily consider themselves exhibiting racism, but define their opposition to such ‘anti-racism’ as an almost anti-anti-racism.<\/p>\n I believe the combination of these two ‘Methods’ – Narrative and Ideological Criticism – can serve as a functional framework for research and analysis of the Epistemological Crisis.<\/p>\n … Kenny<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Introductory Note This project proposal is at the very start of my MLA program. As I am pursuing this program running through one class per semester, the program timeline for me is the maximum five years permitted. ‘The Epistemological Crisis’ is a somewhat ephemeral concept, as such, the project will be rooted in an exploratory perspective. 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\nAn Autoethnographic Meta-Method<\/h5>\n
Historical Rhetorical Methods<\/h5>\n