Geo-thesis outline

My thesis will consist of different forms of fiction and storytelling

 

Why do you want to write this text?

 

Interest in: ecological theory, human-nature/environment relationship, narration, fiction, personal story, new narrative

Themes: mythology, symbolism, fantastic worlds that are a reflection out our real world, nature-technology relationship, has there ever been a nature without technology in the evolution of humankind?

 

What are gardens? What is the garden in my work?

 

 

Close link with my previous work → a quest of understanding past trauma → understanding myself → understanding the world

 

I want the reader to think about: 1. Who are they in relationship to everything living in the world./How is our identity formed in relationship tot he beings that surround us           2. Think of a non-scientific understandings of the world, but rather of soft speculative, sensory, emotional ones          3. Enjoy the stories and dream

 

 

Outline of Methodology 

 

 

Writing style: new narrative defined as “awareness of physical space, metatext, poetic strategies applied to prose, creating works out of found material of autobiography, and "gossip as legitimate art."

 

Authors create a dialogue between themselves and the readers by directly addressing and engaging the reader in their pieces. The authors also situate themselves in time and space by including pop culture references. 

 

writing by physical space rather than actual writing style

 

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Style ideas:

 

1. Ursula LeGuin: Carrier Bag

2. Digital Tarkovski: mixing film script cut outs with hypertext and more analytical pharagraphs

3. Sadie Plant: Zeros and Ones - small chapters that include both her opinions, historical facts and analysis

4. M. Marder: Chernobyl Herbarium - use of personal storytelling to talk about disaster

5. V. Flusser: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis

 

 

Use an AI to write?

 

 

Structure:

*use a character or an alter ego to talk about a specific subject

*blend fiction with reality, journal with poetry

*mix of theory and fiction —> make sense of theory through fiction —> The Chernobyl Herbarium

*what am I investigating through the character in my writing?

 

 

 

Introduction- overview 

Here I will explain why I chose this style, briefly what the story is about and also introduce the reader into the world.

 

Chapter 1 

[2000 words]

 

Chapter 2 

[2000 words]

 

Chapter 3 

[2000 words]

 

Conclusion [500 words] 

 

= 7000 -> nOT sUrE yET Of All ThE OtHer Parts :( :(

 

 

Inspo/bibliography:

Laure Provoust

Dodie Bellamy

Michael Marder

Tyler Coburn

Timothy Morton

Donna Harraway

R. Kimmerer