In what must have been an attempt to eliminate the theoretical and conceptual overload I’ve been feeling, and maybe revealing how ridiculous I think all of this analysis can get, I came up with my own silly titles as if I had achieved eminent thinker status (since they can clearly do whatever they want). The following is the life of TheChrysalids as submitted to Transactions or Progress in Human Geography, or, my next conference presentation titles.
- Fruit fly migration. Compression of fruit fly space and expansion of human place: introduction of the green bin programme to Waterloo Region.
- Transnational doll migration from the global to the local: towards a synthesis of family, place and space.
- The Million Mile Muffin*: mouth-watering miracle or culinary catastrophe? An investigation of materials and the role of space in baking global warming.
- Energy prophet, not for profit: an inspirational framework of virtuousness for global climate change action.
- Is it complicated or is it complexity? The misunderstanding of complexity theory as metaphor in the social sciences: emergence and paradigm in motility and mobilities.
*Please note the Million Mile Muffin is attributable to codejill and LL.
November 1, 2008 at 7:48 pm |
Ha! The muffin lives!
November 1, 2008 at 8:05 pm |
Thanks for the props.
I think for the million mile muffin you should look into swyngedouw’s work.
of course, include the creation of place through baking and an examination of lefbvre’s work while you’re at it!
November 1, 2008 at 9:54 pm |
i will always be thinking of you two when i eat my global warming muffins. i think that what exactly the MMM is needs to be published first! i know there are cashews involved (brazil). jill mentioned something harvested in canada, but manufactured in china (or something) and shipped back.
*examination of lefebvre’s work?*
November 2, 2008 at 9:35 am |
The act of eating the muffins is an act of creating the idea of home and nourishment. Thus the place of eating the muffins is as important as the places that the ingredients came from.
I think it was the ginger, grown here; processed in china. There was coconut, chocolate chips, bananas, cinnamon, brown sugar, whole wheat flour, wheat germ, salt, baking soda, soymilk, lemon juice, vanilla (from Madagascar), and applesauce – my friends made that, so it is the only one that I can vouch for its locality.
Cashews would certainly be delicious and carbon intensive
November 2, 2008 at 2:07 pm |
I like the thesis statement!
The ingredients got me thinking now of other possible ingredients (and not that these all have to go in at once): dates, mangoes, anything from South Africa. I’m trying to think of some specialty foreign oil. Palm oil or a derivative.
November 3, 2008 at 9:20 am |
We should sweeten with agave nectar, and for bonus points, engineer a Catastrophe Cupcake, which no doubt, would contain rum.
November 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm |
I’m thinking an exceptional challenge would be to design a recipe with at least one ingredient from each continent, and bonus points for distant islands.
Catastrophe Cupcake suggestions: rum, coconut, chocolate, banana, palm oil product, agave nectar, a faraway nut (so far, I think cashews are guaranteed furthest).
November 7, 2008 at 12:41 am |
Yes, ideally there should be an ingredient from each continent, distributed over the paralells, so that most of the muffin is catastrophic to most people, independent of where they are situated at the time of muffin consumption.
November 8, 2008 at 10:50 am |
Then it can be the “Universal Catastrophe Cupcake”!