Weight-loss narratives--and the $60.9 billion industry it's attached to--illuminate an aspect of body-acceptance narratives that doesn't quite jibe with my overall theory here.
When I see something, I think, What is it that I am not seeing that this thing must be produced by?" Assange's habit of describing his organization as suffering a constant existential emergency, of blaming his personal legal difficulties on nefarious external forces, of making the acceptance of narratives a litmus test for support, had an uncomfortable ring.
Yet I'm having trouble thinking of large-scale market motives for the body-acceptance therapeutic narrative.
These body-acceptance therapeutic narratives end happily, though, and we all want to feel good about our bodies, so what's the issue here?
There is Steve Coll, the author of "Ghost Wars," credulous in his "whole-hog acceptance" of the narrative about Osama given him by Saudi intelligence.
This notwithstanding, as opinion polls show, the Kazakhstani public at large mostly accept or at least report the acceptance of this official narrative, believing that their country is democratic (or moving toward democracy) and needs a strong leader (see ibid.: p. 49 for details).
There was general acceptance of the narrative of the "Benevolent Community," where "neighbors and friends... roll up their sleeves and pitch in for the common good".
In the cases of both the death of Ian Tomlinson and the violent clearance of the Bishopsgate Climate Camp it was only the publication of video and stills evidence in the Guardian that pushed the IPCC investigation beyond a meek acceptance of official narratives.
White was criticised by some for his unquestioning acceptance of Jackie Kennedy's narrative of events, but what an interview.
And as the era of the nation's first black president draws to a close, black artists and people aren't seeking permission or acceptance from the dominant cultural narrative of old.
The idea of using photo manipulation and graphic designing in order to tell stories through "narrative images" gained acceptance in the early 1900s, when it came to be adapted by artists like Henry Robinson and patronized by critics such as the Queen herself.
