Thursday, February 4, 2010

Final project : how we are going about it

We are looking into myths and construction of beliefs from them as our subject of interest. Our basic source of inspiration is the conflict between two different worlds of the objective and the subjective.

There has been a concept of " The World " and " My World" around different civilizations.

For example, presence of Sun is one objective truth and complete dependence of life on Sun is why it is worshiped around in different civilization. But the heat and light of Sun falls different on different geographical parts of the world and hence, for the people there the Objective presence of Sun is interpreted differently according to their subjective experiences. Still certain civilizations have constructs that believe in world being as one concept ( like Greek civilization) whereas some don't have this concept which leads to multiple interpretation and their existence as myths and stories.

we will add more description later about how we are exploring this domain of formation and existence of History as narratives.

Here is how we are going about the story ...
We are using time as a metaphor our context of subjectivity and objectivity. Sun dial was used as one of the first devices to read time. Obviously since then how the time was measured and understood had been different throughout the globe. But what happens when we travel across these time-zones. Time is obviously a experience as well. This is where our abstraction comes from.

Meghma and Piyush

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