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i mean, not much has changed
now i work at a cafe. i run around and wash dishes and play homo death eyeball game with people. i talk the same, write the same, think the same. lately i've been thinking about the construction of information via narrative. as in, given a set of information, is the automatic response to form a narrative between the various parts of that set? like:
grapes
Baltimore
212F
marshmellow
is the automatic response in everybody to try to construct a story where somebody boils grapes and eats them with marshmellows? in baltimore? or is that just me? hard to say i guess. i can only speak for myself, but it seems like given any set of random data, somebody will figure out a story - "story" - to connect them. so what i've been thinking about i guess is a flat narrative. or maybe just defeating narrative is what i'm interested in, giving no information whatsoever. a video of the empire state building is a narrative; a video of blue sky is not a narrative. it's just blue, sky. it can have personal history and/or speculation attached to it, but it's not a narrative. is it? and if there's several blue skies, with no objects, those blue skies form a flat narrative. blue sky, then blue sky, in blue sky, and blue sky. a narrative that you slip on rather than get lost in.
now i work at a cafe. i run around and wash dishes and play homo death eyeball game with people. i talk the same, write the same, think the same. lately i've been thinking about the construction of information via narrative. as in, given a set of information, is the automatic response to form a narrative between the various parts of that set? like:
grapes
Baltimore
212F
marshmellow
is the automatic response in everybody to try to construct a story where somebody boils grapes and eats them with marshmellows? in baltimore? or is that just me? hard to say i guess. i can only speak for myself, but it seems like given any set of random data, somebody will figure out a story - "story" - to connect them. so what i've been thinking about i guess is a flat narrative. or maybe just defeating narrative is what i'm interested in, giving no information whatsoever. a video of the empire state building is a narrative; a video of blue sky is not a narrative. it's just blue, sky. it can have personal history and/or speculation attached to it, but it's not a narrative. is it? and if there's several blue skies, with no objects, those blue skies form a flat narrative. blue sky, then blue sky, in blue sky, and blue sky. a narrative that you slip on rather than get lost in.