The cartoon spews a dictator led, state-apparatus narrative to explain away social complexities influenced by various subjective logics.
The apparatuses used were narrative approaches as vehicles for reflection on students' own activities.
In that way, the current Islamic State craze in US law enforcement and security circles serves two seemingly opposed but fundamentally codependent narratives: that of the US security apparatus, but also, counterintuitively, that of the Islamic State itself.
Ockham's Razor always choose their apparatus first, then build a narrative around it.
For example, a narrative describing a policy on staging a fire apparatus to protect EMS responders from civilian drivers during an emergency medical call at an MVA would be coded to both the 'Policies, Procedures and Practices' node and the 'Vehicles' node.
Frames are often characterized in terms of the usual apparatus of mental life: metaphors, images, cultural narratives -- and neural links to the emotion centers of the brain.
The issue is not going away and the Sunday Times story may reflect a cack-handed attempt by some within the British security apparatus to try to take control of the narrative.
In an article querying the Sunday Times story, the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill, one of the reporters who worked on the original Snowden revelations, wrote that it may reflect "a cack-handed attempt by some within the British security apparatus to try to take control of the narrative".
To know what happens in advance would be to spoil not just a narrative surprise in a heart-thumping tale, but the entire apparatus Vann has constructed to wrench out the dreadful and meaningless facts of existence, to master them, and, in a violent act of fictional transmogrification, to reconfigure them as something not less, but more real.
Oppressive systems, political and otherwise, exist not only because of a physical apparatus, but also because of a collectively reinforced psychological narrative.
