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<p>This just out:<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2018/12/narrating-complexity.html">https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2018/12/narrating-complexity.html</a></p>
<p>Is anyone here familiar with any of the contributors' work?
From the Springer website:</p>
<p> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319647128">https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319647128</a><br>
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<p><b><i>Narrating Complexity</i></b></p>
<p><i>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 aspects of complex systems, such as their
emergent properties, feedbacks, and downwards causation; and
how ideas from complexity science can inform narrative theory,
and help explain, understand, and construct new, more complex
models of narrative as a cognitive faculty and as a pervasive
cultural form in new and old media. </i></p>
<p><i>The book is suitable for academics, practitioners, and
professionals, and postgraduates in complex systems, narrative
theory, literary and film studies, new media and game studies,
and science communication.</i></p>
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<p>I've known Susan for nearly 20 years when she worked with Logica
(vaguely parallel to BiosGroup) and we've collaborated on a few
topics over those years.Even though I've had an interest and minor
stake in this field (relating the domain of narrative and
storytelling to complexity science), I haven't kept up with this
line of her work (she is so diverse and prolific it would be
impossible) kicked off in 2012.</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2012/07/narrating-complexity.html">https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2012/07/narrating-complexity.html</a></p>
<p>Our friend and colleague from proto-FriAM, Mike Agar helped some
of us think about this general area in his own unique way, and I
seem to remember there were others still in this circle besides
Guerin and myself, with an interest/stake in it (NickT?) We had
a few discussions over beer/coffee at the Aztec Cafe and Cowgirl
Cafe, as I remember it (circa 2006?). We also engaged Tim Taylor
(then Librarian at SFI, now Admin Assistant to Krakauer at SFI,
always a poet).<br>
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<p>A mini-salon held 2 summers ago at Jenny Quillien's on Metaphor
(I distinctly remember DaveW, StephenG, KimS, and a few others
attending) was vaguely tangential to the topic.</p>
<p>I don't expect to purchase my own copy at these prices (eBook OR
Hardcover) but will probably try to engage Susan a little on the
topic anyway. <br>
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<p>From the Springer Preview online, in her co-author's introductory
chapter:</p>
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<p><i>Narrative is the semiotic articulation of linear temporal
sequence.</i></p>
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<p>this is just his working definition for the purpose of the book,
but an interesting level of abstraction for the purpose.</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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