I received the report from the adjudication committee on my thesis today. Two pages. That means positive. According to the new guidelines, a positive report should be two pages, a negative three pages.
"The committee unanimously and without any doubts finds the dissertation worthy to be defended in public at a disputation." Signed Gail E. Hawisher, Jay David Bolter, and Terje Rasmussen.
(And no, it is not like what Jill thought was a set paragraph.)
I was already told would be positive, though, it was the details I wanted.
And these details are positive throughout. I am so happy, I am dancing around the living room. (Luckily I work at home today.)
Words like sophistication, balances successfully, high level of interdisciplinary inquiry, important contribution (I like that one!), or crucial conceptual distinctions make me smile and read it again and again.
But such reports are really read for the hints of what the opposition at the defense may be about. There is only one such paragraph here. Here's an excerpt:
We should note that there is at least one other formal vocabulary that could be used: the vocabulary of visual/graphic design, particularly modernist design in the 20th century, which explains the relationship of word and image in a different way.
Any ideas what this vocabulary, this tradition is? I've read and quoted Tschichold and Müller-Brockmann on typography, so it cannot be those. Please e-mail me literature tips, I sense a trial lecture topic here.
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