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@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ author: Joe Carstairs contrasts: it emphasises that the audience is not, at least not entirely, responsible. +I've added this to my scratchbook. + ### Examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final Like, all of them. @@ -34,6 +36,8 @@ don't see her die, we know that her whole clan has died off, and she will refuse til death to join another clan: the only way it can end is death, and thus the total extinction of her clan. +I've added this to my scratchbook. + ### Meeting with David de Pomerai I met David (for the first time properly, having only seen him at the @@ -276,6 +280,8 @@ For minority/revealed knowledge, see @{heat}, @{xr-not-a-drill}, 'majority' scientific knowledge as its rule, and often loudly celebrates this fact. +I've added this to my scratchbook. + ## 2026-05-01 I had a long think about the argument I want to make in my dissertation. I came diff --git a/scratchbook.md b/scratchbook.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52e57a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/scratchbook.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +bibliography: bibliography.bib +title: Dissertation scratchbook +author: Joe Carstairs +--- + +## Examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or assumed to have power over the problem + +- @{back-to-nature} is a particularly egregious example +- @{inconvenient-truth} must be a go-to. See the credits especially. +- @{forget-me-not}, especially the Epilogue +- @{greenpeace-report} is a particularly egregious example of the magic 'we' + +@{no-one-is-too-small}, @{xr-declaration}, and @{xr-not-a-drill} are good +contrasts: it emphasises that the audience is not, at least not entirely, +responsible. + +## Examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final + +Like, all of them. + +Obvious examples include @{xr-declaration}, @{no-one-is-too-small}, +@{greenpeace-report}. If we don't stop emitting CO2, everyone will die and/or +civilization will collapse. + +@{inconvenient-truth} didn't quite have that narrative, but it did use Earthshot +and Pale Blue Dot very prominently, which I think was to communicate that what +is at stake is global, cosmic, total. + +In @{cry-of-the-wild}, the catastrophe is final for the orca, Eeschin. While we +don't see her die, we know that her whole clan has died off, and she will refuse +til death to join another clan: the only way it can end is death, and thus the +total extinction of her clan. + +### Examples of green rhetoric using core apocalyptic forms + +The goal here is to persuade the reader that green rhetoric often uses literary +techniques which are distinctive of the genre, apocalypse. + +Examples of the doomsday cluster of symbols includes almost every example of +green rhetoric I've read so far: + +- @{silent-spring} +- @{heat} +- @{inconvenient-truth} +- @{xr-declaration} +- @{xr-not-a-drill} +- @{no-one-is-too-small} +- @{greenpeace-report} +- @{back-to-nature} +- @{forget-me-not} +- @{cry-of-the-wild} +- @{greenhouse-effect} + +Green rhetoric almost always talks about the world system, so engages in cosmic +speculation by default. Almost all green rhetoric also imagines alternative +worlds, particularly alternative futures, whether utopic or dystopic. Pretty +much anything in the above list would include those symbols. + +Examples of nesting contexts: + +- @{greenhouse-effect} +- Chp 7, @{losing-eden} +- @{inconvenient-truth} +- @{xr-declaration} +- @{wilding} +- @{losing-eden} + +The best examples of moral dualism: + +- @{no-one-is-too-small} +- @{silent-spring} +- @{xr-declaration} +- @{back-to-nature} + +The best examples of eschatological symbols: + +- @{cry-of-the-wild} +- @{xr-not-a-drill} +- @{back-to-nature} +- @{inconvenient-truth} + +For fatalism, see: @{xr-not-a-drill}, @{american-apocalyptic}. + +For mythological symbolism, see: @{cry-of-the-wild}, @{xr-not-a-drill}, +@{inconvenient-truth} (Revelation itself used as a mythological symbol!). + +For exhortations to remain faithful, see: @{xr-not-a-drill}, @{cry-of-the-wild}, +@{back-to-nature}, @{xr-declaration}, @{forget-me-not}. + +For minority/revealed knowledge, see @{heat}, @{xr-not-a-drill}, +@{silent-spring}. But be aware that the vast majority of green rhetoric uses +'majority' scientific knowledge as its rule, and often loudly celebrates this +fact. |