Slide Set 23: What's the Story?


A run at having a grand theory of stories. A range of pieces. Why conspiracy theories and mistruths succeed, Story Wars, the fundamental kinds of stories, folkloristics, the possibilitiy of a taxonomy, and the essence of all stories. Life and Death and survival. Hatchings, Matchings, and Dispatchings. We are homo narrativus.

Simple, flat slides:
94M ; Last updated: 2020/09/12, 14:01:53
Printable handout:
26M ; Last updated: 2020/09/12, 13:39:25
Slides with all reveals for lectures:
139M ; Last updated: 2020/09/12, 12:45:25

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