It’s the start of a new year and for me, the start of a PhD.
The first month (just managed to sneak this one under the wire) has been a fascinating start.
I’m going to be looking at different groups beliefs about aspects of the human body, particularly Fascia. This is social research – a whole different ball game.
Anyone who has looked at social research will know you can’t really move without bumping into Foucault and his thoughts on why things are the way they are so there has been some significant reading in that area.
And then Fractals – this is the mathematical idea of repeating patterns that are found everywhere in nature. That took some time to get my head around but once you are aware of it you begin to see it everywhere.
That experience is called the Baader Meinhof phenomenon. The Baader Meinhof group was a militant organisation usually referred to as terrorists. That doesn’t begin with an F and I think the quote that ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ ties in quite nicely with the idea I am exploring that lots of different groups see the same thing in different way.
This tied in with the feminism strand where I had to read a really interesting book on Emily Davidson, the woman who stepped out onto the race course on Derby day back in 1913. It’s one of the interesting things of moving towards the humanities; that there are many different ways of looking at the same thing.
Foam rolling? It’s the main connection that the public have with fascia. Do you foam roll? What do you think it is doing?
It’s going to be 6 years of wild exploration!
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