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Tag Archives: stories
Sense-Making vs. Sense-Unmaking
One widely acclaimed methodology in information science is Dervin’s “Sense Making Methodolgy” (SMM). It is very similar to the way people often think about “storytelling”: Because communication is embodied and learned in impositional and constraining structures (families, communities, cultures, societies), … Continue reading → Continue reading →
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The individualist manifesto vs. The anti-revolutionary social contract
To think or not to think — no. To write or not to write… — no. To create or not to create… — that’s wrong, too. I can come up with many ideas, but where do they come from — … Continue reading → Continue reading →
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Tagged agree, agreement, antisocial, co-exist, community, contract, exist, existence, existentialism, individual, individualism, individuals, language, life, narrative, narratives, philosophy, revolt, revolution, self, social, stories, story
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Live to Make “Love Life” Stories
Why should anyone write down their life story — isn’t simply living it good enough? I think not — and the reason why is quite similar to the reason why many people keep journals of their dreams. In fact: This … Continue reading → Continue reading →
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Why Collocation Matters
If you haven’t read “Words as Puzzle Pieces” yet, then please check out that post first. Obviously collocation is the very crux of “solving” a puzzle. It also forms the basis of frames (frame theory) and scripts, which are crucial … Continue reading →
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Tagged collocation, correlation, frame, frames, information, psychology, relationship, relationships, script, scripts, semantic, semantics, stories, story, system, systems
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Little Bitty Digital Fantasy
Closing a door behind him, the author prepares for a little change of pace…. It will be an experiment — an experiential quasi-essay, a window to a different space, one of fantastic cyber-surrealism. Approaching the entrance, he sticks out his … Continue reading →
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Tagged artificial intelligence, cognition, cult, culture, data, disorder, emergence, fact, facts, fantasy, fiction, frame, frame theory, frames, information, intelligence, language, meaning, media convergence, meme, memes, order, popular, realism, stories, story, surrealism, thematic, theme, themes, theory
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Love is the Illness Where the Antidote is Worse than the Poison
I write many love stories. As author, it is very anticlimactic whenever the true inspiration leaves the room before the fictional climax has appeared. Hot writing without a fever is probably even more difficult than when the ink well runs … Continue reading →
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