Narrating Complexity
This book stages a dialogue between international researchers from the broad fields of complexity science and narrative studies. It presents an edited collection of chapters on aspects of how narrative theory from the humanities may be exploited to understand, explain, describe, and communicate aspe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and Overview: Who, What, Why
- Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists
- Complex Systems for Narrative Theorists
- A Brief History of Systems Thinking
- Sense and Wonder: Complexity and the Limits of Narrative Understanding
- The Benefit of Doubt: Embracing Complexity and Uncertainty
- Simple Story of the Complex Mind? A Rhetorical Analysis of Cognitive Science Texts
- When Robots Tell Each Other Stories, or the Emergence of Artificial Fiction
- Plato with a Movie Camera: Visually Thinking of Complexity
- Augmenting Communication: Peering at Narratives and Complexity Through a Digital Arts Lens
- The Secret Life of Civilization
- Our Complex Earth
- Why Do We Trust Computer Simulations?
- Irreducible Complexity and Narrating the Endarkenment
- Gardening Complex Systems, and Other Metaphors
- Analysis of Contributions
- From Simplex to Complex Narrative: A New Model