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The Method

The Method. Notes for class October 9th. Five Analytical Moves: Making Observation Systematic and Habitual. Step 1: Suspend Judgment Give yourself some time before deciding you don’t like something, or something is worthless. You can’t know very much about something immediately.

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The Method

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  1. The Method Notes for class October 9th

  2. Five Analytical Moves:Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 1: Suspend Judgment • Give yourself some time before deciding you don’t like something, or something is worthless. • You can’t know very much about something immediately.

  3. Five Analytical Moves:Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 2: Define Significant Parts and how they are related. • Some things are too big to be immediately understood…so, start by trying to understand small parts. • After you begin to understand small parts, see how they are related to form the entire object.

  4. Five Analytical Moves :Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 3: Locate exact repetitions of words or details throughout a story, movie, or song and underline or circle them. • Repetition is a sign of stress and importance. • Repetitions can signal themes. repetitions

  5. Five Analytical Moves :Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 4: Locate strands—a grouping of a similar kind of word or detail—and underline or circle them. • Determine the connecting logic for the strand. • Draw a conclusion about what the strand implies—what is the message the author is trying to convey? strands

  6. Five Analytical Moves :Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 5: Locate binaries or organizing contrasts. • Make a list of binaries that are explicit in the story, movie, or song. • Make a list of binaries that are implied. • To “collapse the binary”: 1. Analyze and define opposing terms. 2. Question the accuracy of the terms. 3. Locate argument on each extreme, and consider a position somewhere in the middle. binaries

  7. Five Analytical Moves :Making Observation Systematic and Habitual Step 6: Look for anomalies . • These are details that are unusual, or do not seem to “fit” with the rest of the object. Step 5: Rank the most important repetitions, strands, binaries, and anomalies. • This is where you begin to interpret your data and evaluate it. Step 6: Choose the single most important one and write a paragraph explaining it and why it is the most important. anomalies

  8. Arrangement in Black and Grey: The Artist’s Mother • Locate the following: • Repetitions • Strands • Binaries • Anomalies

  9. Performing The Method • Repetitions • Lace x 2 • Both feet & curtains off floor • Paintings x 2

  10. Performing The Method • Strands • Containment—things that are contained • Her head, in a cap • Her hands, in her lap • The expression on her face

  11. Performing The Method • Binaries • Patterned curtain & painting vs. blank wall • Fancy lace vs. plain black dress

  12. Performing The Method • Anomalies • Proper figure, but slouching • Feet propped off the ground

  13. Performing The Method • Repetitions • Lace x 2 • Both feet & curtains off floor • Paintings x 2 • So what? What does it mean? • Plain figure stands out against decorative surroundings

  14. Performing The Method • Strands • Containment—things that are contained • Her head, in a cap • Her hands, in her lap • The expression on her face • So what? What does it mean? • Figure seems contained in a protective shell.

  15. Performing The Method • Binaries • Patterned curtain & painting vs. blank wall • Fancy lace vs. plain black dress • So what? What does it mean? • Subject seems even more • contained sitting in plain black • dress in front of the painting.

  16. Performing the Method • Anomalies • Proper figure, but slouching • Feet propped off the ground • So what? What does it mean? • She is so proper, so why is she slouching? She must need support; perhaps she can’t support herself.

  17. Arrangement in Black and Grey: The Artist’s Mother Most significant observation: Subject is seated in profile…makes her appear passive, simply available to be seen.

  18. Practice The Method (1) Tian An Men Square, 1989 • Locate the following: • Repetitions • Strands • Binaries • Anomalies

  19. Practice The Method (2) MLK, Jr. “I Have a Dream” • Locate the following: • Repetitions • Strands • Binaries • Anomalies

  20. Prerequisites to Becoming Smarter • Look for questions. Instead of looking for answers, seek out areas of uncertainty. • Suspect your first responses. Never stop at your first reaction to an issue. • Expect to become interested. Use writing to explore issues enthusiastically. • Write all of the time about what you are studying. Become an active creator of information instead of a consumer.

  21. Two people who are were always becoming smarter.

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