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Going to be crazy in the class because of the essay.

Yes we spent almost the whole class to write and edit out essay, actually I am happy with this. Because I was waiting for Professor Miles’s suggestions of my essay, I did worry about my essay. By the way, I didn’t finish the chapter three.

Miles gave me a lot off suggestions, thanks Miles. There was a point that I remember, Miles said I can take a list as a invitation, but I think that a list is more similar to a order. Although these two words are different, basically the action is letting people to do something.

The essay will due on the coming Thursday, read again and again the P40-41 that Professor Miles says.

Our soundscape’s subject is a kitchen, to connect the kitchen and ontology I need to focus on separated sound of kitchen. As Miles mentioned that the kitchen is empty in a long time, the sound will be rich when people stay in the kitchen. Pay attention to the empty kitchen, what sound will still exist while nobody use it.

Today is the due day of our project one, the noticing 2. I think that my group members are very co-operated, and the job done well.

It is a busy week but I finally competed the reading before Thursday. Oh I said that I will improve my reading methods to help me get fully understanding of reading. So this week , the chapter two of Ian Bogost’s book that I have read more than twice. Unfortunately, I don’t think I completed understand what Ian Bogost want to explain and express about the Ontology. That’s no problem, we gonna keep talk about the ontology in today’s studio. The good news is I think I can use or understand ontology to our project.

Also, there was a good news that our co-operated students in Germany have their blogs. I can’t stop my curious to read what happen to their class and study. What’s funny, I don’t understand German so I need to translate it by google translate.

Maybe those students will have more conversation with us on blog?

Thanks to my group mate Joel Delamar, he is the sound editor in our group. He done the sound edit work already. We all hear the soundtrack, it was really good. But there are still some small mistakes. Like a part of the soundtrack is the sound of boiling water, the volume is too high. The whole soundtrack is only 55 seconds, not one minute enough. A great part of our soundtrack is staff’s sound, lacking human’s speaking sound.

Since last Thursday, we edit and edit our script of the soundtrack, we kept to rich the script, details in details. To Tuesday, Nina borrowed microphone from school and recorded the list of sound of script. Good jobs everyone.

There we will have our important first project in the coming week, and essay will due in the week after next week.

Now, in this blog, I am going to discuss three aspects to improve my study in this semester, to achieve my goals.

#1 Improved study methods

In the last few weeks, my study methods are: pay a attention to class to get important part, take notes when I am reading (Bad method), and update blog about something I notice and image. Then I will change the reading method that I used, this is a stupid method as Professor Miles said, we can’t take note at first time we read the readings. That wastes time and energies, seriously. In the coming weeks and readings, I will roughly read at the first time, then deeply read and research online for better understanding of readings. Keep to pay more attention to class. Keep update blogs, compared to before, I want to rich my blogs, making my blog includes more content across many areas. I’d like to spend the 10 hours (out of class studying time) on blog.

#2 Set targets

Although I am not that self-confident, I still want to get high score, you know, HD is the perfect result I really want to have. So set this as my final important targets. Before I arrive that targets, starting with details. #1 Well communication with group members, brave to share ideas in every meeting and discussions. #2 Competed the first project with our great encourage.

#3 What I done well.

Think about myself, firstly I updated at least five posts a week in the last few weeks. Secondly, I completed reading and took notes after the first reading. Thirdly, for understanding unknown ideologies and knowledge I got from reading and class, I will do research to rich myself. Then, until now, I participated in every class. Keep these.

Blogging just like writing a diary, but I think there are still some differences that make me think it is worthy to blog.

Blogging help me to notice what happen to my surroundings and what ideas come into my mind suddenly. I noticed my own question that I like to think about many thing but I always forget to record it so those ideas and question come into my mind will be forgotten by me later. Actually I want to form a habit that is taking note when I notice or think out something so I always put a notebook in my bag for in case. But, the truth is, I almost never take it out of my bag when I think out something, I know I am lazy.

I think when blogging has become a mission to me, I will have a pressure to force myself to record. By the way, I think my writing skill will be improved with the time of forming a habit.

What I wish is, the minced beef cutlet can jump out of a definition of food that will be ate, it is an agency at meanwhile. An agency that links me to my friends.

Food, especially delicious food is a big common subject of a talk in the world so the minced beef cutlet can be the agency to help me to start the talking with friends. If I want to have a conversation with somebody then I can ask him or her that would you like to have a try of this minced beef cutlet? If they answer yes, congratulations! This is a good beginning. After they try the cutlet they will comment on it, then follow the comment to go further talking. If they answer no thanks, don’t worry, I can still keep to ask that what are you going to eat. Of course they would answer me if they don’t hate me or think I am annoying.

Moreover, this cutlet can be an agency between me and my friends to exchange culture. The minced beef cutlet is from the north part of China, it can be a representative of Chinese food, at least, to my friends. For Melbourne, avocado can be chose to be the representative of food. There is no avocado in the cutlet so why don’t we just mix the beef and avocado to make new taste that only sell in Melbourne, Australia. The improved cutlet, we can give it a new name that is the minced beef and avocado cutlet, is an agency that present the mixing culture under the multicultural Melbourne.

From the point of view of teleology, the minced beef cutlet exist for human being’s existence. Personally, I buy the minced beef cutlet because I am hungry, it exists to offer me more energy. For the store, they make and sell it for business benefits. Socially, this minced beef cutlet is a part of contribution of multicultural Melbourne. However, from the point of view of object-oriented ontology, as the author Ian Bogost says in his book, Alien Phenomenology, Or, What it’s like to be a thing, “we need not discount human beings to adopt an object-oriented position —- after all, we ourselves are of the world’s as much as musket buckshot and gypsum and space shuttles. But we can no longer claim that our existence is special as existence.” We all are objects, including living beings and non-living beings, existing equally in this world. The relationships between the minced beef cutlet and other objects are more than the people can figure out.

In general, story is constituted by three parts: Beginning, high tide and ending. In class, we have a new one.

Story:

-Plot

-Journey

-Events: cause;effect

– characters

-BME, resolutions

Story this word, created by human and mainly is full of human actions and experience, human is the center to control it. However, Narrative, to some extent, is well used than story. Story is can be included by narrative but what narrative has is more than story.

“Teleology”: philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent purpose, directive principle.(definition from WIKI) Go further of this teleology, it can be separated in two parts: extrinsic finality and Intrinsic finality. To be honest, in my opinion, this teleology is a typical form of idealism. People think all the things are teleological to live in the world, and the thinks they figure out are actually depends on those mind, right? I believe that everything on this earth has its own meaning to exit, but I don’t think human can understand all the purpose that they exit. But the teleology I think can be usefully on some areas like story writing.

When we are reading a story or a narrative, we will be attracted by plot and keep reading in order to know what will happen after this? What is the end? What will happen on characters? How is the plot going? In other words, we have teleological purposes when we want to figure out something. However, according to Rushkoff the narrative is collapsing for many reasons such as the growing pop-culture, big story. Then gaming now could be a new direction to save narrative but not the way as Rushkoff says. Why？ Because we don’t know how and what the ending is until the game finished, we can’t jump to the ending directly.