Reading memo: 'Narrative Collapse' by L.M. Sacasas
April 27, 2022•2,864 words
Source citation
Sacasas, L. M. 2020. ‘Narrative Collapse’. Substack newsletter. The Convivial Society (blog). 14 June 2020. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/narrative-collapse.
Summary
Narratives are a technology, and should be seen as such. It is not merely that technologies shape narratives (though they do), but that the narratives themselves are also technologies. Not in the sense that they are material artefacts, like (say) a computer or a pencil. However, if an algorithm is ...
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