MA_Draft

To open this file you will need to download the open source 3D modeling program Blender!

In October 2023, near the beginning of my second year in my PhD program, I was told than an MA exam that did not fit the norms of traditional scholarship would not be passed, and that the current project I had pitched would need to be reworked into a traditional paper. The project in question was critiquing how the standards of traditional scholarship (writing and presentations) flattens 3D objects and limits them to single orientations, ignoring their unique, virtual physicality. It would not be possible to continue this work as a paper.  So instead I offer this Blender file for download, to be explored and changed by viewers. I invite you to see what would have been lost from this 3D space if it had been locked into a screenshot, and what would have vanished from both my work and my scholarly practice if I had abandoned this project altogether.