Essay structure

Introduction: 500

Chapter One: Embodiment as architecture: Acknowledging the Chiasmus 1000

Basic research for my project: basic representations: initial images and explanations
Non body Plan, Borges – Labyrinths 500

Chapter Two: Embodiment through Neuroscience: Understanding the Chiasmus 1000
Initial chronogram: The neural language of stucco: shelves, stills - descriptions 500

Chapter Three A: Embodiment as film: Oneiric Haecceity: Bridging the Chiasmus 1000
Techniques for editing the film: Chronogram 500

Chapter Three B: Case studies, practical analysis of projects.
A.] Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (1500)
1.Brief description overview of its plot and its relevance
2. Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment and this film
3. Deleuze’s method to approach how to understand memory and thus the representation of plasticity.
4. how this leads to a heightened/new sense of embodiment – we are our memories, we inhabit the world through them
5. Technical analysis of the film – linking to deleuze’s reading of decoupage etc…with ref to CGI – hypercinema / cybercinema –immersive sound
6. Conclusion / overview
Eternal Sunshine’s representation of one man’s memory does challenge previous cinematic notions concerning the act of remembering.
B.] Chris Cunningham Flex (500)
1.Brief description overview of its plot and its relevance 200 words
2. Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment and this film
3. Deleuze’s method to approach how to understand the body and brain
5. Technical analysis of the film – linking to deleuze’s reading of decoupage etc…with ref to CGI – hypercinema / cybercinema –immersive sound
6. Conclusion / overview
C.] Pattern Recognition (500)
1.Brief description overview of its plot and its relevance 200 words
2. Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment and this film
3. Deleuze’s method to approach how to understand the body and brain
5. Technical analysis of the film – linking to deleuze’s reading of decoupage etc…with ref to CGI – hypercinema / cybercinema –immersive sound
6. Conclusion / overview
D.] My project (1000) and lots of images
Chapter 4: Conclusion: Embodiment, Neuroscience, Film: Enveloped in the Chiasmus 1500
Long overview, discussing the merits and pitfalls etc of the cross disciplinary approach

Discussion / End 500

10,000 words