Research progress
Since last summer, and after my last posting, I have been spending much of my time tracking and defining the limits from which I want to situate my research (summer is great for that, though a big portion of my time was also taken up doing other unrelated academic activities) and also my dissertation proposal, and ultimately, my dissertation itself. The route taken has been rather long and in some sense a little unwieldy (of course, some of language limitations also make the research a lot less thorough-going than I would like), though I am beginning to make up my mind about how far and wide do I really want to go. I am going to poste some preliminary ideas that I have that will be undergoing further revisions and refinement as my research continues. Dissertation goal: Revisiting and expanding the notion of media and mediation to encompass observations and theories relating to phenomenology (in the different ways in which the term is utilized) and experiments in particle physics. The...