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Why this stuff matters
Jul. 31st, 2007 06:03 pmEnglish, I mean. Cultural studies. Media and representation and the use of signs and words.
Because it's what makes us human.
The way we look at the world around us and try and turn it into stories, use narrative as a tool to predict and explain, look at the world and think it *means something* - that's human.
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Stories are experience without experience, they're the map to the dark places behind the eyes, they're the record and revelation of us.
So it matters, this thing we do here of poking the stories and turning them over and making them our own. It matters enough to kick in the logic and reason and pull things apart with the text tools college tries to give us. It matters enough to get passionately emotional.
It matters because we're people, and this is how.
Because it's what makes us human.
The way we look at the world around us and try and turn it into stories, use narrative as a tool to predict and explain, look at the world and think it *means something* - that's human.
( Read more... )
Stories are experience without experience, they're the map to the dark places behind the eyes, they're the record and revelation of us.
So it matters, this thing we do here of poking the stories and turning them over and making them our own. It matters enough to kick in the logic and reason and pull things apart with the text tools college tries to give us. It matters enough to get passionately emotional.
It matters because we're people, and this is how.