Frames

What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The meani... See more

All of this is arising inside the long-established paradigm of distinction, of relating to the world as made up of discrete objects — of which each of us is one.

We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more