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The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative
Mon 19 Feb 2024 03.00 AEDT
In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and
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anthropomorphically.”
Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Happy endings, Simon seems to suggest, are a form of prostitution.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
his story expressed one of the unappeasable longings of the human imagination: the idea of a perfected society in which the world’s lost innocence will be restored and the Golden Age before the Fall will return.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn’t necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The J
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