Mark Moore
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Mark Moore
Whether through imaginative engagement or literal neural synchrony, the psychology of narrative suggests that we crave stories aligning with how we actually think and remember. And how we think is often non-linear: full of associations, symbols, and relational webs. Thus, storytelling that “mirrors the mind” – with its tangents, recursions, and net
... See moreA project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily digestible message.
With hindsight, we can see that the nonlinearity of digital hypertext and poststructuralism cut two ways: On the one hand, it helped to dismantle master narratives; on the other, it prod
... See moreAlphabetical Diaries ’ organizational logic presents a rendering of contemporary life that appears asynchronous, atemporal, and acausal because of its departure from the paradigmatic engine that tends to drive narrative movement: time.
Conor Truax • Against Autofiction: Two Paths for the Internet Novel | Spike Art Magazine
In emergent storytelling systems, authorship is distributed. The designer or writer creates a system of possibilities and symbols rather than a fixed sequence. Then the player’s presence and choices in that system bring about specific story moments. Researcher Hartmut Koenitz, for instance, argues that interactive digital narratives demand new anal
... See moreSome researchers even speak of “mythic cognition” in AI – using archetypal narratives as a framework for AI-generated storiesincreasinglyunclear.medium.comdegruyterbrill.com. While that’s nascent, it points to a fusion of the oldest storytelling with the newest technology. Importantly, this union can help in creating stories that feel meaningful
... See morewhen one story dominates, it risks exterminating others or doesn’t do justice to the reality it presumes to narrate. Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive. And since stories have a direct impact on reality — to the point that we often mistake one for the other — we need to tell stories that enliven, provide solace, and inspire co... See more
Niels Devisscher • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
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 s
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
[hermeneutics] [fundamentalism]
Its full meaning in isolated phrases or verses or episodes, is so deeply engrained that the larger structures of the text, its strategies of characterization, its arguments, can be completely overlooked. 158.
Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson 2024
Its full meaning in isolated phrases or verses or episodes, is so deeply engrained that the larger structures of the text, its strategies of characterization, its arguments, can be completely overlooked. 158.
Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson 2024
Book: Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson
[Babel/Psalm 8]
Our conception of humankind is ... too narrowly defined ... [look at] the overwhelming power we are as a creature, a species. Every day we are confronted with the actual and potential effects of this power, but we are never properly in awe of it. ... it is collective, collaborative. ... Only God Himself could alter Creation as we thr... See more
Our conception of humankind is ... too narrowly defined ... [look at] the overwhelming power we are as a creature, a species. Every day we are confronted with the actual and potential effects of this power, but we are never properly in awe of it. ... it is collective, collaborative. ... Only God Himself could alter Creation as we thr... See more