Nick -
I do think this is the kind of cross-disciplinary material that we
several could use as a good "shared meal"... a good choice for a "book
club", if you will. I don't expect Springer drops prices on their
books (ever?), but those with institutional affiliations can probably
get access to the e-book through their library, etc.?
Do you remember being amongst those conversations at Cowgirl/Aztec back
somewhere between 2003 and 2007?
- Steve
This is the kind of thing we ought to sit down to read together …
perhaps when the price comes down? Or bite the bullet and do it now?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
*From:*Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Steven
A Smith
*Sent:* Sunday, December 30, 2018 11:52 AM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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*Subject:* [FRIAM] a memory less ephemeral: Narrating Complexity
This just out:
https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2018/12/narrating-complexity.html
Is anyone here familiar with any of the contributors' work? From the
Springer website:
https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319647128
*/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 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. /
/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'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.
https://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2012/07/narrating-complexity.html
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).
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.
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.
From the Springer Preview online, in her co-author's introductory chapter:
/Narrative is the semiotic articulation of linear temporal sequence./
this is just his working definition for the purpose of the book, but
an interesting level of abstraction for the purpose.
- Steve
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