Slide Set 023: What's the Story?


A run at having a grand theory of stories. A range of pieces. Why conspiracy theories and mistruths succeed, Story Wars, the fundamental kinds of stories, folkloristics, the possibilitiy of a taxonomy, and the essence of all stories. Life and Death and survival. Hatchings, Matchings, and Dispatchings. We are homo narrativus.

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