Bode / Dietrich Future Narratives

Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-027237-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 1, 237 Seiten

Reihe: Narrating Futures

This head volume of the 'Narrating Futures' series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete manifestations across the media. Drawing on different theorems and approaches, it offers a unified theory and a poetics of Future Narratives. Locating the media-historical moment of their emergence, this volume paves the way for the following volumes, which deal with how Future Narratives are refracted through different media.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, Libraries, Institutes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bode, Christoph

Dietrich, Rainer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface and Acknowledgements;7
2;1 The Theory and Poetics of Future Narratives: A Narrative;13
2.1;1.1 Future Narratives: A New Kind of Narrative;13
2.2;1.2 What Narratives Do for You;16
2.3;1.3 Approaching the Future I: Great Shock – Utopian Tales No Future Narratives!;21
2.4;1.4 Approaching the Future II: The Unbearable Gravity of the Present;24
2.5;1.5 Capturing the Openness of the Moment: Some Basics About Nodes as Building Blocks of Future Narratives;28
2.6;1.6 Run Lola Run – Only a Pre-Cursor?;33
2.7;1.7 The Road Not Taken;36
2.8;1.8 Doing the Shuffle: Lola Runs Again, Books in Boxes, and Slatted Pages;37
2.9;1.9 Decision (Choice) Theory and Game Theory, in Relation to FNs;43
2.10;1.10 Into the Heart of the Matter: A Node’s Interior Life – Character, Space, Time;54
2.11;1.11 Nodal Power;59
2.12;1.12 Varieties of Nodes;61
2.13;1.13 Interactivity;63
2.14;1.14 Simulation;66
2.15;1.15 As Node Leads on to Node: Nodal Structures and Their Representations;68
2.16;1.16 Why ‘Narrative’ Anyway?;79
2.17;1.17 Stranger than Fiction: The Failure of Prediction, the Virtue of Scenarios, and Why FNs Are the Key to Our Future;87
2.18;1.18 The Human Brain as an ‘Anticipation Machine’;109
2.19;1.19 The Way Ahead;117
3;2 Formal Models for Future Narratives;121
3.1;2.1 Introduction;121
3.2;2.2 Representations of FNs;121
3.2.1;2.2.1 Nodal Graphs;121
3.2.2;2.2.2 Aspects;124
3.2.3;2.2.3 Consequences;127
3.2.4;2.2.4 Reaching the same Situation in two different Ways;129
3.3;2.3 Quantification of Openness;130
3.3.1;2.3.1 The Spectrum of Consequences;130
3.3.2;2.3.2 The Spectrum of the Agent;139
3.3.3;2.3.3 The Degree of Openness of a Situation: Nodal Power;139
3.4;2.4 Advanced Models for Similarities;142
3.4.1;2.4.1 Similarity;143
3.4.2;2.4.2 Formal Definition for Models of Type II;145
3.4.3;2.4.3 Models of Type II without underlying Subtractive Aspects;147
3.4.4;2.4.4 Path Dependency of External Aspects;147
3.4.5;2.4.5 Computing Nodal Power in the Presence of External Aspects;149
3.5;2.5 Reversibility;151
3.5.1;2.5.1 Undoing Choices;151
3.5.2;2.5.2 Degree of Reversibility;151
3.6;2.6 Topological Classification of Future Narratives;153
3.6.1;2.6.1 The Topology of the Nodal Graph;153
3.6.2;2.6.2 Geometrical Classification: Homology Groups;157
3.6.3;2.6.3 Classification including Aspects: Cohomology Groups;160
3.6.4;2.6.4 Conclusion;165
3.7;2.7 Appendix: Basic Mathematical Concepts;166
3.7.1;2.7.1 Sets and Functions;166
3.7.2;2.7.2 Basic Graph Theory;167
3.7.3;2.7.3 Integration;168
4;3 Future Narratives: The Media-Historical Moment;174
4.1;3.1 The Historicity of ‘Future’;174
4.2;3.2 The Probability Calculus;180
4.3;3.3 Insurances;189
4.4;3.4 Projects and the Stock Market: Great Expectations;197
4.5;3.5 The Coffeehouse and the Idea of Truth-as-Process;202
4.6;3.6 The Plot Thickens: The Modern Realist Novel;212
4.7;3.7 Future Narratives and Historical Mediality;219
5;Works Cited;229

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.