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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography">autobiography</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture">pop culture</a> 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