The Crisis of Narration

The Crisis of NarrationNarratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire

and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history

geometry and biological imagery that characterise her work all find their origin during this period

dissent and rebellion fester on all sides

Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz through Anderson’s life and career in a hardcover book-length conversation

This deluxe package includes an OBI side strip

and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed

Thomson shows how digital culture sates our desire to witness chaos while suffering none of its aftereffects

As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict

were murdered by the inhabitants

the end product is a debut record that is both perfectly of the moment

and essays on broader topics such as their image

on 12 July 1979