Tag: narrative
Pan Narrans
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.” – Terry…
Sunday Tidbits: Storytelling has a Shape
“Storytelling has a shape. It dominates the way all stories are told and can be traced back not just to the Renaissance, but to the very beginnings of the recorded word. It’s a structure that we absorb avidly whether in art-house or airport form…
Figuring out the new Narrative
“There are times when you lose your narrative or get tired of it. Then it takes a while to figure out what the new one is” – Kim Gordon, in Life after Sonic Youth Truth. And my lived experience the last few years.