From cc546381b6aa8653e3285498668dc31878139e8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 09:13:08 +0100 Subject: scratchbook -> scrapbook --- Makefile | 14 ++++----- scrapbook.md | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scratchbook.md | 94 ---------------------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scrapbook.md delete mode 100644 scratchbook.md diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 08571a1..c1e4e05 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ BIBLIOGRAPHY := bibliography.bib LOG_MARKDOWN := log.md -SCRATCHBOOK_MARKDOWN := scratchbook.md +SCRAPBOOK_MARKDOWN := scrapbook.md LOG_PDF := log.pdf -SCRATCHBOOK_PDF := scratchbook.pdf +SCRAPBOOK_PDF := scrapbook.pdf -all: log scratchbook +all: log scrapbook watch: ifdef TARGET @@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ log: $(LOG_MARKDOWN) $(BIBLIOGRAPHY) --output $(LOG_PDF) \ $(LOG_MARKDOWN) -scratchbook: $(SCRATCHBOOK_MARKDOWN) $(BIBLIOGRAPHY) +scrapbook: $(SCRAPBOOK_MARKDOWN) $(BIBLIOGRAPHY) pandoc \ --standalone \ --from markdown \ --to pdf \ --pdf-engine pdflatex \ --citeproc \ - --output $(SCRATCHBOOK_PDF) \ - $(SCRATCHBOOK_MARKDOWN) + --output $(SCRAPBOOK_PDF) \ + $(SCRAPBOOK_MARKDOWN) clean: - rm $(LOG_PDF) $(SCRATCHBOOK_PDF) + rm $(LOG_PDF) $(SCRAPBOOK_PDF) diff --git a/scrapbook.md b/scrapbook.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41cab84 --- /dev/null +++ b/scrapbook.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +bibliography: bibliography.bib +title: Dissertation scrapbook +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. diff --git a/scratchbook.md b/scratchbook.md deleted file mode 100644 index 52e57a7..0000000 --- a/scratchbook.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,94 +0,0 @@ ---- -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. -- cgit v1.2.3