Tuesday 23 June 2015

At a glance: One hopelessly overambitious project (first attempt)

As previously mentioned, I'm going to be blogging about my thesis project over the next few years. (Haven't actually started it formally yet but that is a mere detail.)

With some degree of arbitrariness (but, I think, a heuristically useful arbitrariness at this stage), I've planned out my workload by splitting each of the six proposed parts into six sub-sections. Obviously it probably won't work out like this when it comes to writing but it's been a useful exercise to try and get a handle on how it'll all fit together (or how it won't).

I II III IV V VI
Earth
and
Cosmos
Stoics/
ancients
Leibniz/
moderns
Humboldt/
Colonialists
Amerindians/
non-moderns
Whitehead/
warriors
Latour/
Gaia
Geopolitics
and
Environment
Montesquieu/
climate
Humboldt/
ecology
Mackinder/
race
Heidegger/
welt
Critical/
environment
Latour/
Earthbound
Spherology
and
Fortification
Walls/
wars
Fences/
animals
Forts/
bunkers
Armour/
self
Enclaves/
embassies
Hydrological/
planetary
Diplomacy
and
Territory
Varieties/
genealogies
Stengers/
pragmatism
Amerindian/
ethnohistory
White/
middle
Negotiation/
war
Activism/
power
Possibilism
and
Possession
Febvre/
geography
Cronon/
environment
Lakes/
changes
Schmitt/
economy
Tarde/
possession
Activism/
dispossession
Geohistory
and
Geodesy
Braudel/
Deleuze
Rudwick/
Parker
Hamblin/
Edwards
Latour/
Lovelock
Schmitt/
division
Grounds/
possession

This schematic will mean nothing to anyone except me (and it is all entirely provisional, especially the last two chapters). However, I will be writing some chapter-by-chapter sketches in the near future.