Silvie-thesis outline

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.

While the damns are threatened, hightened year after year, the ocean floor is punctured for oil. Organic shells have been replaced by an Off-shore Shell platform.

Over time VOC cargo containers have replaced wind for heavy fuel oil (HFO).

The sea, in mythology as well as religion, associated to flood myths directed by divine retribution.

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.

“The memory was stored on the water and refused to land” (fox p. 109)

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.

CHAPTER 1: The Moon and the Merchant

"If the Moon pulls the tides, it also rules the market" (Alice Sparkly Cat)

"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).

"Debt creates currency" (Sparkly Cat p. 117)

The sailors looked up at the stars to navigate.

CHAPTER 2:

The moon is roughly only visible 12 hours a day.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Klose, A. (2016). Container Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mit Press. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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