On this website I share undisciplined and daring inquiries into media, politics and culture, audiovisual essays, and not least – short films and unrealised artistic projects. Please feel free to reach out if you would like to collaborate.
A little about me: Lukas is a re-searcher in media and culture. He earned a BA in Communication (Aarhus University), an MA in Globalization and the Global Order (Aalborg University) and most recently a PhD in Social Science from OsloMet, Norway. Diplomas do not mean much these day but if I there is merit to my work, it comes from diverging from post-positivist methodological orthodoxy.
I am learning from psychoanalysis, political philosophy and anthropology. I am also learning a lot from people who hold different political stance than my own. I champion old-fashioned approaches to the study of media and society – i.e., close reading and sustained observation – which remain innovative and true enough for perceptive beings, like us. There is no defensible philosophical standpoint to justify the current post-positivist inertia of data-driven science – its driven by convenience, mostly, and is grounded in pragmatism.
P.S. Having no method makes you go further, to places you never thought you would have gone.
P.S.2 Oh, and in case you wonder about re-search: Let’s be humble: knowledge-production is circular and paradigmal, overlapping, and negating (not simply adding onto) what’s has been known before. Google knows this!
Lukas Mozdeika
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all”
(Wittgenstein, Tractatus 6.52)
