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@@ -1,82 +1,59 @@ # Tasks -## Week 1-3 (end: Fri 1 May) +## Week 1-4 (end: Fri 8 May) - [x] Exploratory reading - [x] Re-draft the dissertation argument and structure - [x] Re-draft the project plan -## Week 4 (end: Fri 8 May) - -- [x] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms' -- [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms' -- [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final -- [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or - assumed to have power over the problem -- [x] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation -- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate - responses to ongoing green harms -- [x] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric blames the wrong people, - i.e. evidence that major green harms are not fairly blamed on the - behaviour of ordinary people -- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric justifies violence and - authoritarianism - -## Week 5 (end: Fri 15 May) - -- [ ] Gather evidence that St John's rhetorical strategy is to exhort his - audience to a martyrdom ethic through an immanent catastrophe -- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the 'core apocalyptic forms' -- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the particular apocalyptic features his - rhetorical strategy requires -- [ ] Gather examples of ancient apocalypse using the features I think are - under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric -- [ ] Gather examples of apocalyptic green rhetoric using martyrdom-apocalyptic - features -- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric banishes panic -- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages local - action -- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric awakens the - complacent -- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages - resistance to dominant systems -- [ ] Gather evidence that green rhetoric can use the features I think are - under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric to make good things happen - -## Week 6 (end: Fri 5 Jun) +## Week 5-6 (end: Fri 5 Jun) -- [ ] Draft chapter 2 +- [ ] Draft chapter 1 -## Week 7 (end: Fri 12 Jun) +Thesis: contemporary green rhetoric is a failure because it mis-diagnoses the +root causes of the problems, fails to identify credible routes to credible +solutions, and fails to identify an appropriate audience. -- [ ] Draft chapter 3 +1. Contemporary green rhetoric (R) is a failure +2. R mis-diagnoses the problem +3. R fails to identify credible routes to credible solutions +4. R fails to identify an audience that can be persuaded to make a difference +5. The material results of R have been dismal + +## Week 7-8 (end: Fri 19 Jun) + +- [ ] Draft chapter 2 -## Week 8 (end: Fri 19 Jun) +Thesis: anti-apocalyptic criticism of R mis-diagnoses the problem. -- [ ] Draft introduction +6. The effect on R's audience now is a spiralling cycle of despair +7. This has led some critics to blame apocalypticism for the failure of R +8. This is a traditional criticism of apocalypticism 'from above' +9. Apocalypse 'from below' has often worked very differently +10. This difference is due to the different interests of the readers -- a + difference which does not apply in the case of green crises +11. In fact, apocalypse can meet the critic's concerns in principle +12. (In order to do so in practice, those with power need to attack the + structures which drive the downward spiral) -## Week 9 (end: Fri 26 Jun) +## Week 9-10 (end: Fri 3 Jul) -- [ ] Draft summary +- [ ] Draft chapter 3 -## Week 10 (end: Fri 3 Jul) +Thesis: green rhetors need to use apocalyptic rhetoric in order to motivate +their PMC audiences to a martyrdom ethic. -- [ ] Re-draft chapter 2 +13. John's rhetoric exhorts his audience to a martyrdom ethic +14. R needs to exhort their audiences to a martyrdom ethic +15. Socialist rhetoric in the past has used apocalypticism for this very purpose +16. Once rhetors addressing the PMC have fixed all the other problems with R, + they'll need this apocalyptic hope, too ## Week 11 (end: Fri 23 Jul) -- [ ] Re-draft chapter 3 +- [ ] Write introduction and conclusion +- [ ] Start re-drafting ## Week 12 (end: Fri 30 Jul) -- [ ] Re-draft introduction and conclusion - -## Bonus - -- [ ] Gather a list of shared forms between nuclear rhetoric and green rhetoric -- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic nuclear rhetoric -- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic green rhetoric demonstrating the close - link with nuclear rhetoric, many of which should be from the same time - period as the peak of nuclear catastrophe rhetoric -- [ ] Incorporate into the dissertation an argument that catastrophic green - rhetoric has a strong genetic relationship with nuclear rhetoric +- [ ] Final re-draft |