Storytelling: Tales of Tactical Magic

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ULEC 2920 1.1

STORYTELLINGTALES OF TACTICAL MAGIC

ULEC 2920 1.1

STORYTELLINGTALES OF TACTICAL MAGIC

STRATEGIESTechniques of the empowered

or

Space takes the appearance of an immutable truth through strategies,

or the establishing it, shoring it up, naming it, identifying its borders, and maintaing it. Jamer Hunt

TACTICSWays of constructing alternatives

or

Stolen moments of creativity & freedom, clipped from the cycles of routine Jamer Hunt

Those who discover an explanation are often those who construct its representation. Edward Tufte

MAGICIANS...contriving illusions about cause and effect and then in turn

explaining techniques of illusion production.

STORYTELLINGtactics to interpret + construct knowledge

LAND

MEMORYNegotiations born into and out of society:

time . place

past . present

agency . structure

speaker . listener

spoken . unspoken

fact . fiction.

FACT vs. FICTION“...(the novel) examines not reality but existence. Existence is not what has occurred...(rather) the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he’s capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this or that possibility...A novel that does not discover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novelist’s only morality.” Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel

FACT + FICTION“The idea that [science fiction] does not merely anticipate but actively shapes technological futures through its effect on the collective imagination”

“Science fiction visions appear as prototypes for future technological environments”

Dourish, P. and Bell, G. To appear. “Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous

Computing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

TH E A MOUNT OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN A MESSAGE DEPENDS

DON’TBELIEVEA WORDON WHERE IT OR IG INATES AND ON ITS PROBABIL ITY.

Crow, David. Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts. Lausanne: AVA Academia, 2010. p. 167.