Kent Bye VoicesOfVR

I see MOONLIGHT as an example of a Heroine's Journey centered in embodied experiences & relationships. It's less of a typical hero's journey story & it was qualitatively different. It felt like the ultimate empathy experience of creating symbolic representations of an inner life.

I talked about VR as a feminine/receptive medium in 2014 with @skydeas1. Morie says most of the VR storytellers in the 90s were women. Part of figuring out storytelling in VR is discovering the underlying mythological patterns of the Heroine's Journey: http://voicesofvr.com/72-jacquelyn-ford-morie-on-the-history-of-vr-emotional-experience-mapping-military-simulations-nasa-isolation-training-scent-collar-for-vr-creating-the-holodeck/ …

The dominant forces of political/ economic power are pointing to more & more centralization of power, authoritarian control, & surveillance w less freedom & choices. Are cryptocurrencies a turning point? Can it address disparity & inequalities? Or just reinforce existing powers?

Is there a "heroine's journey" that's distinct from Campbell's Hero's Journey? If there is, then we may have little idea of what that looks yet in a culture and context that has been so centered in male stories and perspectives: https://twitter.com/PamelaPaulNYT/status/970663779368361984 …

.@Millicentsomer surveys women-centered stories & argues that critics are blind to the deeper patterns of women's stories. If there is a "heroine's journey," then perhaps it either hasn't fully emerged in our culture & context, or maybe we can't see it yet http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/03/male-glance …

Using hero vs heroine's journey can be problematic since we all have masculine & feminine aspects happening at the same time, and it's likely that every story has an outer yang and corresponding inner yin dimension. So hero vs heroine has problematic, gendered language baggage.