Sunday, January 17, 2016

Narrating (especially written narration) in the anthropocene bind

Thought --> Is it possible to produce a written account without a human, or a human's perspective at the center of the narrative? If it were possible, I would agree naming our epoch something else then anthropocene.
Think of sitting by a river. Everything about the river alive enters the body as the body is disposed to be entered on that moment. Maybe today, the ears are a bit plugged or buzzing, maybe another day, the sun will be so bright as to interfere with the senses, prioritizing light reception over sound, for example. The written text of a river describes a river as a human can describe the river. It is never the river, in the text, but the human river.
To accompany my meditation on human and non-human point-of-view in written narration, have a read on The Narrativity in the Representation of Reality by Hayden White. 
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality 
White, Hayden. "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality." Critical Inquiry. 7 (1980): 5-27.


Look up Jan. 11post from anonymous IP on this blog. I can't re-post the link of the River flowing. 

Here is another river link, from Youtube
River video, from river's perspective

~cricri

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