Take Away Ideas/Thoughts/Revelations/Fears:
“Plots Are For Dead People”
A cynical revelation at best-
Plots are for people who aren’t ‘living’ the truth- who don’t exist in the real world.
For those existing in a dream, a fictional world of characters, plots, cause and effect, fables and moral righteousness.
But plots are not how the world works, the real world is not a fictional fairytale, and we are ‘living’ at best, by engaging with the world in a way that represents the world.
Story and plot are not the same thing.
The Grimms were telling a tale. But it is a very nice place to visit, thankyou,
Here, we also have the enormous apparatus of the world’s networks;
Language- English or other
Spatial awareness- words on a page, people in a lecture, entries and exits
Social agencies- online etiquette vs. face to face .
We begin from a specific /individual premise and see as a whole;
A ‘plot’ is not how the world works- that much is a fable.
No generalisations- we exist outside of eachother, and of each ‘thing’.
Abstract connections tell our story- not plot.
Everything is an agent that has a passenger to enable development.
Technology has affordances that are particular to what it asks of us- For example, we program ourselves to react when our phone rings, we are controlled by the buzz, the alarm, the ding of a tram, the toot of a horn, the call of our name.
These controls are a technology- extracted from ideas, humanities and practice.
BUT it all depends on specific, profund cases. Someone may not turn to their name when called; someone may ignore the toot of a horn or the ring of their phone. It does depend.
