
Figural Realism

The form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
... See moreIn the end, all our histories will be just that: stories we tell ourselves, narratives of retrospective self-affirmation, fictions of and for resistance that are, nonetheless, answerable to a sense of the real processes of lived and suffered histories. Thus to enter critically into the problematic of narrative, representation, history and the
The Change Merchants: Why rule by nerds leads to perpetual chaos
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And when something deceives us by purporting to be genuinely "real"—based on true events that happened to actual people, or could have happened to actual people, we tend to give them more weight: we think of them as truth in a fiction jacket. This problem bleeds over into related half-fictions like true crime and government conspiracy theories,
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Perhaps what inevitably lies ahead of us is a sort of neo-surrealism, some rearranged points of view that won’t be afraid to stand up to a paradox, and will go against the grain when it comes to the simple order of cause-and-effect.