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We might think of structure as simply: an organizational scheme that allows the story to answer a question it has caused its reader to ask.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
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)
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
“Embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence, and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it
... See moreJeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
History can get stuck and can go into reverse. Powerful interests will do whatever they can to resist, divert, confuse or disrupt trends that they find threatening. Imagination is one of the weapons with which to confront them—imagination that is compelling, rigorous and thought through.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “a set of lies agreed upon”). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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