humorous but lots of cussing -not for kids

The concept behind this project was to explore autonomy as a medium. I was interested in a career in media but had no direction. I began to develop a theory that focused on the medium of writing and it's processes (creative, critical and technical) as a potential creative avenue that might lead me to greater independence possibly as a writer for media or writing about media or both simultaneously.

This diagram is not a tetrad but perhaps is in the form of a metaphor-autonomy and it's integral processes (creative, critical, technical)

The transition from analog media to digital-writing is the central issue or metaphor being examined-that words are central metaphors now in motion at lightspeed as in scriptwriting where words are in motion and must be put in order.

Initially I couldn't decide what form the role of my research should take-on writing for example in 1. a critical sense such as a professor would do or 2. technical as a journalist or 3. creative like a scriptwriter or 4. in a particular genre, as forms of specialization or using it as in 5. multimedia in relation to other skills.

I finally settled on a third and final metaphor that of the relationship of scripting to multimedia and began to design some online-multimedia content.

The inclusions of the project centre around a critique of what happens to the two forms of autonomy-personal and media when the writing process goes online and where these three metaphors that are central to this process meet up creatively, technically and critically.

The message of this critique is the task of giving identity to both voice and an audience to these metaphors by learning how to apply imagination to put on words and make some order out of this seeming chaos when these metaphors collide.

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The demand to be permitted to govern ourselves reflects the conviction that we are, in essence, self-governors. In essence, but not always in fact. Sometimes our authority over our actions is nothing but the form of self-government. Sometimes we are not autonomous agents. If, then, the structure of rational agency justifies our conviction that we are capable of governing our own actions, it does not hold the key to the distinction between those cases in which we fail to exercise this capacity and those in which we succeed.

The conviction that there is such a distinction is grounded in the obvious fact that victims of brainwashing, compulsion, addiction, depression, anxiety, and many other conditions are prevented from governing themselves. If their lack of autonomy is not simply a function of the fact that their actions are causally determined by states of affairs over which they have no control, and if it is not equivalent to any fact about the considerations they are disposed to recognize and be moved by, then it would seem to be a more intrinsic feature of their agency.

No particular attitude seems to be essential to autonomous agency, however — except, of course, the attitude of authorization that is essential to all action for a reason. Nor is it necessary that any particular principles of reasoning serve the autonomous agent as guides — except, again, whatever principles must guide the action of even nonautonomous agents. The content of our desire to govern ourselves when we act thus remains obscure to us, even as the legitimacy of this desire is clear.