Three tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
The curation and imposition of a narrative line upon the disparate chaos of images
Three tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
The Database dramatically expands access to information, challenging the authority of even the most venerable professional weavers of Narrative. Official narratives are just one more datapoint, one more entry in the Database, one way among many of generating a path through the entries.
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
the act of putting one thing next to another is an incredibly important one and should be left to people with deep knowledge about or passion for the subject at hand—people who care about the significance of proximity. They are our “trusted guides,” as Antonelli put it. That practice of ordering can even become an art form in itself.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Many years ago, she had concluded that curators at their best are “trusted guides.” “They are specialized in something,” she said, whether that’s olive oil in a supermarket or American paintings from the 1960s. What’s more, curation is a two-way street: one always must be aware of the viewers, their perceptions, reactions, and even emotional
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.
Jonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
... See more…shaped narratives typically focus on the struggles of protagonist, are almost always grounded in some implicit or explicit moral conflict, and ultimately lead not just to an account of what happened but also to an expression of what it all meant. Shaped stories are meaning-making tools and they can exert awesome sway, not just over individual
Narrative is a tool by which we extract (or impose, depending on your perspective) meaning from the chaotic flux of being in the world
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
building smaller communities of consumption devoted to more specific subjects can lead to a much deeper sense of engagement, both with the content and among the users.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Publications, whether massive or tiny, are platforms now. Audiences will choose a small number and become very loyal to them. Thus news publications will perform more and more aggregation as a service.