I’m rereading Malka Older’s excellent “Infomocracy” trilogy for next semester (students are reading it). Check out her concept of “narrative disorder” ... in that cyberpunk future, the ability to turn data into stories was seen as a mental disorder but it gave the protagonist 1/2
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superpowers in a society built on “objective” data. There’s a short story here (https://firesidefiction.com/narrative-disorder …). Anyhow, point being I‘m thinking a lot about a middle road between fact/data and the stories we make from them. Also, they are excellent books. 2/2
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Bring a vest. You know the kind I mean.
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See David Simpson, The Academic Postmodern: A Report on Half-Knowledge
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Thanks. Just ordered.
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I don’t disagree about the dangers of narratives, but emotional touchpoints and digestible arcs are critical to gain attention in such a noisy environment. Can you avoid them if you want your journalism embraced?
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That is *precisely* what worries me: In the quest for attention, we rely on the emotional draw of narratives, a medium for manipulation.
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You are not wrong.
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Maybe you can sort out how the story of stories weaves things together. Each story focuses things down to a very specific targeted space that might not have context to the overall story of stories that woven together describes the current state of the public mind...
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