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The Crisis of Narration

The Crisis of Narration

Han, Byung-Chul
Steuer, Daniel

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1509560424
ISBN13: 9781509560424
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Apr 1 2024
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Narratives 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 around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience.

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