3 tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
The curation and imposition of a narrative line upon the disparate chaos of images
3 tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
We’re in a chasm between stories that used to function and new stories which haven’t yet gathered enough coherence to function effectively. We can respect the stories of the past, but we also realise that they often aren’t actually helping us to navigate the reality we are living in anymore. Oftentimes we’ve surpassed the level of knowledge and... See more
Phoebe Tickell • New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What It Means to Be Human
The relationship between narrative and reality truly inverted in 2024. Events used to create narratives. Now, narratives create events. This inversion isn’t just a cultural shift—it’s also deeply tied to the tools we’ve built, the machines we’ve let shape our world. AI and automation aren’t just technological marvels; they are the engines of this... See more
kyla scanlon • The Year Narrative Ate Reality
Of course, long before any advanced communication technologies, humans had been drawn not just to stories but also to the possibility of living as characters within them. Story’s appeal had always been precisely that it’s not like reality. The two words, in theory, were antonyms, just as “reality television” was oxymoronic. The dream of living... See more
MAGA as Fan Fiction | Los Angeles Review of Books
Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
We mistake our immediate perceptions for the world-as-it-is – but really, our conscious awareness is a moment-by-moment model, a constant process of re-appraisal and re-integration with the world as it presents itself to us. In this way, our internal model of the world, our consciousness, shapes the world in the same way and just as powerfully as
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
- Stories are discrete. One essay, one event, one customer experience. Someone might say, “Did you hear the story about Company X doing thing Y?”
- Narratives are made up of all of the stories about a company, which crystallize into what people believe and say about the company as a whole. The narrative around a company is similar to its reputation
Packy McCormick • Story Time
Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness. There is never just one—they compete with one another and constantly change.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The curator’s job is to aggregate high-signal content on a given subject so that you don’t have to. A Curator is not necessarily Creator in the sense that you (as the reader/consumer) are not “trading” your attention/money in exchange for that creator’s individual perspectives, opinions, frameworks, or insights. What you’re trading is your
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