Narrating Complexity

New approach to complex systems thinking and understanding

Interdisciplinary approach to narrative theory and understanding complex narratives

Authors among the leading experts in this domain

New approach to complex systems thinking and understanding Interdisciplinary approach to narrative theory and understanding complex narratives Authors among the leading experts in this domain Chapter 17 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 License

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Richard Walsh is a member of the Dept. of English and Related Literature in the University of York. He teaches modules in American literature and in theories of story, covering fiction and non-fiction, the earliest years of cinema, and graphic novels, as well as narratives in digital and interactive media. Susan Stepney is a professor of Computer Science in the University of York. Her main area of interest is non-standard computation, in particular bioinspired algorithms, complex adaptive systems, emergent properties, and nanite assemblers.

Inhalt
Introduction and Overview: Who, What, Why.- Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists.- Complex Systems for Narrative Theorists.- A Brief History of Systems Thinking.- Sense and Wonder: Complexity and the Limits of Narrative Understanding.- The Benefit of Doubt: Embracing Complexity and Uncertainty.- Simple Story of the Complex Mind? A Rhetorical Analysis of Cognitive Science Texts.- When Robots Tell Each Other Stories, or the Emergence of Artificial Fiction.- Plato with a Movie Camera: Visually Thinking of Complexity.- Augmenting Communication: Peering at Narratives and Complexity Through a Digital Arts Lens.- The Secret Life of Civilization.- Our Complex Earth.- Why Do We Trust Computer Simulations?.- Irreducible Complexity and Narrating the Endarkenment.- Gardening Complex Systems, and Other Metaphors.- Analysis of Contributions.- From Simplex to Complex Narrative: A New Model.