an assembly of stories
My friend admitted herself to the hospital the other day, she has since been released. She only spent 2 nights we visited her Tuesday night. I don't know... I guess she admitted herself because her shrink said it would be the fast track to getting the medication she needs. She's been resisting taking medication for a while and now that she's accepted that it would be good for her she's saying things like we'll have to get used to a 'new her'....
Section from article I'm supposed to be reading for class tomorrow:
Stories are how we make sense of experiences, thus providing the historical sense of
life. To paraphrase Dewey, extracting at each present time the full meaning of each
present experience enables us to do the same for our pasts. The continual reconstruction
of the past in the light of the present is integral to full engagement with the present time.
When we tell stories over a cup of coffee, we participate in the wholeness of language,
which is itself a means of enacting the wholeness of life.
Things are not objects. In fact, things are precisely the opposite of objects. When
we are focused on things, we are actually also focused on ourselves. When I am
focusing on the attachment of this coffee cup, I am actually getting back to myself
quite fast, as well as to the entire history of Italian coffee-making, the people who
are harvesting the coffee, etc. This cup of coffee is an assembly. (Latour interview,
Prieto & Y oun, 2004)
So I will drink my coffee and be confused as life becomes harder to make into a series of stories.
Section from article I'm supposed to be reading for class tomorrow:
Stories are how we make sense of experiences, thus providing the historical sense of
life. To paraphrase Dewey, extracting at each present time the full meaning of each
present experience enables us to do the same for our pasts. The continual reconstruction
of the past in the light of the present is integral to full engagement with the present time.
When we tell stories over a cup of coffee, we participate in the wholeness of language,
which is itself a means of enacting the wholeness of life.
Things are not objects. In fact, things are precisely the opposite of objects. When
we are focused on things, we are actually also focused on ourselves. When I am
focusing on the attachment of this coffee cup, I am actually getting back to myself
quite fast, as well as to the entire history of Italian coffee-making, the people who
are harvesting the coffee, etc. This cup of coffee is an assembly. (Latour interview,
Prieto & Y oun, 2004)
So I will drink my coffee and be confused as life becomes harder to make into a series of stories.