Notes on Rushkoff: Narrative Collapse

08
Mar
2017

“Narrative imaging is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend upon it. It is our chief means of looking into the future, of predicting, of planning and of explaining” Mark Turner
We all become futurists in one way or another, peering around the corner for the next big thing… now we are in the future the story began to fall apart and we began experiencing our first true symptoms of present shock
Knowledge of history help us put the present in perspective although we do not have great skill in projecting that narrative ability into the future
The way of organising stories is the now the way of understanding the world
Movies dedicated to preserving the stories we use to understand ourselves turned the cut and paste technologies against the digital era from which they emerged as if to restore the seamless reality of yesterday
The new challenge for writers is to generate the sense of captivity as well as the sensations and insights of traditional narrative but to do so without the lucky of a traditional storyline
it is no longer the writers job to tell us how somebody felt about somethings it is to tell us how the world works