2016 Lecture 03 Maps of Meaning: Part I: The basic story and its transformations

2016 Lecture 03 Maps of Meaning: Part I: The basic story and its transformations. A story tells about a journey from point a to point b. A revolutionary story, a meta-story, describes how one story was transformed by anomaly and crisis into another. Full description.

We inhabit a story, with a particular structure. That story contains a representation of the desired future, compared to the interpreted present. It exists at different levels of resolution, from low-res abstract ideals, down to the conscious microbehaviors that make up our actual interaction with the world.

A story tells about a journey from point a to point b. A revolutionary story, a meta-story, describes how one story was transformed by anomaly and crisis into another.

Originally published on Feb 4, 2016.

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