Research proposal

If I write through as much as I can, say I get to 80 pages of the Arcades Project overall of actual response (straight through the book or jumping around), with finally a longer batch of notes, then on top of this I put together two more papers, what would these final papers look like? They would be about citation and then about methodology, bringing these two things—contextually and formally dismantled by Benjamin—back into the academic fold, so to speak. But how can I do my best to continue the actual project of the Arcades Project, to learn from it? I think that the notation practice of the blog is good and I can see moving through that for a while, but to make a larger move beyond this is not quite clear. I think I would need to say, what am I doing it for? A publication, a resume, a job, a professor, a community of people? It's true I'm looking at alternative modes of scholarly output, trying to come up with a framework outside the present one for disseminating knowledge. Would this mean baby steps away from the present setup? That seems to be what things lead to naturally. Would it be redefining the art/research mandate? It seems to already be there, circling around the "image-making medium within us." I think it would appropriately be a work that fits within and art/research dialectic, with a good rationale. And what about gallery work and curation? For instance, "Counterpath" refers to a difficulty, an impasse, that is the same as what these other things are working with. To process the Arcades Project, to write a discourse on a passage that fits it within my own, only slightly different concerns... To write a paper as a student in the university context. Benjamin never stopped valuing the Trauerspiel book and what he did there, even though it seems to be assigned this preparatory status. It might have been to fulfill a requirement, but it was real for him, did real work (as is clear from its repeated references in the Arcades Project). So as I'm making these notes, this blog of notes, I'm thinking about where they lead. How do we sensibly put together projects in light of what the Arcades Project is showing us? I'm hoping this becomes clear. In the meantime it's all notation.