"It's a counter-narrative to the mechanistic, deterministic narrative," Spiegel said.
Exclusively for GARAGE, Cheng and Haley Mellin discuss the connection between mind and body, the effects of software on culture, and the tension between deterministic narrative and abysmal base reality.
Some researchers, such as Beard and Neary (2013), while noting declining cognitive abilities among their participants, couched these difficulties as "obstacle[s] to overcome" (p. 137)—highlighting the continued role of agency in participants' lives, their sense of open time, and resistance toward deterministic narratives of decline and incapacity.
From the battlefield action that's the film's very raison d'être, Gibson (working with a script by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight) builds a narrative that gets its deterministic backstory from another war as well — and from Desmond's troubled relationship with his father, Tom Hugo Weavingg).
In more radically deterministic terms, the temporal association in the narrative to an unavoidable finality—"there is of course the inevitable um decline toward desperation and death"—suggests a foreshadowed time (Morson, 1994) in which the possibilities of the present are held hostage, limited in their meaning by a predestined future.
"This new mode is interesting, because it's giving you, the player, the empathy you see in a regular linear narrative, and adding into it the self-deterministic aspect of Alex Hunter.
These pieces might fit more convincingly into the Los Angeles gang narrative as well, if he embraced a less deterministic attitude toward history and human behavior.
The unsettling absence of depth or interiority in the narrative mimics the negation, implicit in Howard's deterministic ideology, of the individual human consciousness on which liberal humanism is founded.
ME is able to represent non-deterministic domains involving concurrency, static laws (constraints), indirect effects (ramifications), and narrative information in the form of action occurrences and observations along a time line.
While this first part of analysis takes a deterministic stance and aims at answering testable questions, in a second part, narratives were coded and interpreted in order to better understand the local meaning of cholera and its prevention.
"The pervasive cynicism of narrative voice throughout Maggie is virtually unknown in the somber presentation of deterministic agents leading to tragedy in standard naturalistic works...Irony reinforces the extent to which the characters misinterpret themselves and their society, attributing codes of honor, valor, and chivalry to a world devoid of any of these values".
