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This thesis will be a journey through time, recounting the socio economic development and forceful spatial expansion of The Netherlands, from the perspective of the sea. The sea, shapeshifting, a multitude, is a witness, a vehicle for transport - of a message and the source of creation and destruction. | This thesis will be a journey through time, recounting the socio economic development and forceful spatial expansion of The Netherlands, from the perspective of the sea. The sea, shapeshifting, a multitude, is a witness, a vehicle for transport - of a message and the source of creation and destruction. | ||
This thesis aims to blend historical research as well as more fabulating / speculative writing. | This thesis aims to blend historical research as well as more fabulating / speculative writing. | ||
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==INTRODUCTION== | ==INTRODUCTION== | ||
Time is said to have come from the word <I>'tide'</I>. 2 tides a day, created by an intermix between the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon, and the rotation of the earth. The sea with its waves crashing on the shore is like a metronome. | Time is said to have come from the word <I>'tide'</I>. 2 tides a day, created by an intermix between the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon, and the rotation of the earth. The sea with its waves crashing on the shore is like a metronome. What would the song of the sea sound like? The sea has seen the first maritime expeditions, the transition of VOC ships into VOC cargo ships, organic shells replaced by Off-shore Shell refinery platform, while its waters are rising. | ||
At the core of the origin story of The Netherlands is the control of water. Control in the name of protection and control in the name of expansion: the annexing of land from the sea and overseas. The flood is said to be a metaphor for The Netherlands as a phenomenon. | |||
==CHAPTER 1: The Moon and the Merchant== | ==CHAPTER 1: The Moon and the Merchant== | ||
"If the Moon pulls the tides, it also rules the market" (Alice Sparkly Cat) | <big><b><I>"If the Moon pulls the tides, it also rules the market" (Alice Sparkly Cat)</b></I></big> | ||
The sailors looked up at the stars to navigate. | |||
"The sea, or water, is the great medium of circulation established by nature, just as money has been created by man for the exchange of products" (Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Strategy). | "The sea, or water, is the great medium of circulation established by nature, just as money has been created by man for the exchange of products" (Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Strategy). | ||
Asymmetrical exchange. | |||
"Debt creates currency" (Sparkly Cat p. 117) | "Debt creates currency" (Sparkly Cat p. 117) | ||
==CHAPTER 2: == | |||
The platform of the Ocean | |||
The relics on the bottom of the ocean floor: VOC cargo ships. Internet cables following the same routes as the map of the Atlantic slave trade. Same floor that is being punctured for oil. | |||
Visibility always comes at the cost of the invisibility of something else. | |||
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1. Klose, A. (2016). Container Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mit Press. | 1. Klose, A. (2016). Container Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mit Press. | ||
2. | 2. J Michelle Coghlan (2020). The Cambridge companion to literature and food. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. | ||
3. | 3. Fox, D. (2019). Limbo. Fitzcarraldo Editions. | ||
4. | 4. Sparkly Cat, A. (2021). Post-colonial Astrology. | ||
5. | 5. Adriaan Geuze and Olof Koekebakker (2005). The flood : 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam ; catalogue ; [26 mei - 26 juni 2005]. Rotterdam: Internationale Architectuur Biënnale. | ||
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NOTES | NOTES | ||
Revision as of 11:13, 3 November 2021
THESIS OUTLINE
This thesis will be a journey through time, recounting the socio economic development and forceful spatial expansion of The Netherlands, from the perspective of the sea. The sea, shapeshifting, a multitude, is a witness, a vehicle for transport - of a message and the source of creation and destruction.
This thesis aims to blend historical research as well as more fabulating / speculative writing.
INTRODUCTION
Time is said to have come from the word 'tide'. 2 tides a day, created by an intermix between the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon, and the rotation of the earth. The sea with its waves crashing on the shore is like a metronome. What would the song of the sea sound like? The sea has seen the first maritime expeditions, the transition of VOC ships into VOC cargo ships, organic shells replaced by Off-shore Shell refinery platform, while its waters are rising.
At the core of the origin story of The Netherlands is the control of water. Control in the name of protection and control in the name of expansion: the annexing of land from the sea and overseas. The flood is said to be a metaphor for The Netherlands as a phenomenon.
CHAPTER 1: The Moon and the Merchant
"If the Moon pulls the tides, it also rules the market" (Alice Sparkly Cat)
The sailors looked up at the stars to navigate.
"The sea, or water, is the great medium of circulation established by nature, just as money has been created by man for the exchange of products" (Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Strategy).
Asymmetrical exchange.
"Debt creates currency" (Sparkly Cat p. 117)
CHAPTER 2:
The platform of the Ocean
The relics on the bottom of the ocean floor: VOC cargo ships. Internet cables following the same routes as the map of the Atlantic slave trade. Same floor that is being punctured for oil.
Visibility always comes at the cost of the invisibility of something else.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Klose, A. (2016). Container Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mit Press. 2. J Michelle Coghlan (2020). The Cambridge companion to literature and food. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 3. Fox, D. (2019). Limbo. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 4. Sparkly Cat, A. (2021). Post-colonial Astrology. 5. Adriaan Geuze and Olof Koekebakker (2005). The flood : 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam ; catalogue ; [26 mei - 26 juni 2005]. Rotterdam: Internationale Architectuur Biënnale. 6.
NOTES