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Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1
Many years ago in my early 20s when I first started walking in the landscapes UK just for the sheer pleasure of it, I might find a track along the edge of a field, or between two fields, bordered on both or either side by a hedgerow. I would walk along side it, comprehending the…
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Putin’s “Master Narrative”
The importance of stories and narratives in our sense-making and deliberative process cannot be over-estimated. Stories are “the primary form by which human experience is made meaningful…Narrative meaning is a cognitive process that organises human experiences into temporally meaningful episodes.” (Polkinghorne, 1988) “ You start to answer the age-old question ’ What am I to…
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Doomer Optimism and Narrative Dynamics
This is a series of tweets I publised today as a response to Ashley Colby’s (@RizomaFieldSchool) tweet on hand-washing clothes and dishes. The tweet acted as a perfect attractor for many of the ideas about complexity, economics, narrative and pattern language that I’m researching for my PhD Comps Exam and developing towards the research element.…
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First Thoughts on The Dawn Of Everything by Wengrow & Graeber
This is a huge book- both in its ground-breaking content and its physical size! Here the authors challenge the entrenched narratives that the pre-agricultural world was either a primitive Eden of small egalitarian hunter-gatherers (Rosseau) or nasty, brutush and short, requiring heirachy and governance to quell our worst natures (Hobbes). For someone like me researching…