1. What is the point in redefining narrative as anything more than ‘cause and effect’?

It’s useful to think about the conditions of traditional narrative, and think about how we might be rejecting those in our k-films. Due to the number of different platforms that exist, the blurred line between professional and non-professional, media convergence…it’s strange to think we can continue just defining narrative as “cause and effect”. Narrative: an engine to make stories.

2. Ryan notes ‘we can never be sure that sender and receiver have the same story in mind.’ Korsakow films allow for greater freedom of interpretation. Do you see this as a positive or negative? How can the filmmaker control interpretations?

Filmmakers can have different amounts of control. You can control content by using keywords. But do we want to control interpretations?

3. Ryan argues that sender and receiver will always have a different story in mind. Would this be a negative for us when trying to convey a story or meaning with Korsakow?

Adrian is linking k-films’ ambiguity and multiple connections with promiscuity and polyamory. Interesting. Positive: much closer to the shape of the world, with much more ambiguity and pluralism.

Do you believe the meaning of narrative has been diluted through its descriptive use in society?

It does get used as a bit of an umbrella term for everything.

4. What is the difference between the components of story and discourse?

It’s how you tell a story that matters, not the story itself.

5. When considering non-linear narrative, how important is Ryan’s sixth criteria for identifying narrative; the notion of ‘closure’?

Until a story ends, we don’t know what’s happening! All bets are off.

From Bogost reading:

1. Apart from reminding us that narrative is made up of ‘everyday stuff,’ what can lists achieve as a literary device?
2. Why and to what end are we to be freed from the ‘tyranny of representation’?
3. Bogost writes ‘lists do not just rebuff the connecting parts of language but rebuff the connecting of being itself.’ How do lists do this?
4. If a list was to be created through a random non-human selection is a narrative still created?