(When I first heard the collaborative-author theory of Ferrante, I figured it was a rumor started by members of Wu-Ming to bring attention to their own "Unidentified Narrative Objects" and "New Italian Epics").
These interests include unexpected points of view, complicated yet accessible stories, alternative realities, and "unidentified narrative objects", meaning works of uncertain genre, such as Gomorrah, which combine reportage and fiction in unsettling ways.
In recent years, narrative ideas, object relation theories, attachment theories and feminist ideas have been incorporated into family therapy practice (Józefik and de Barbaro 2004; Józefik and Iniewicz 2008; Tryjarska 2010).
While painters capture a story or feeling with pigment on canvas, Yi creates a narrative with objects and ideas sourced from the scientific community.
Sometimes the best narratives about objects are the ones we can only imagine.
The godparents of the critical design movement, their work weaves speculative narratives around objects, producing designs that extrapolate current trends and offer witty critical commentaries on contemporary culture.
In these narratives, talismanic objects appear in a seagull's nest, girls become silkworms, tattoos change shapes and, in the title story, a couple of vampires attempt to quench their thirst for blood by sinking their fangs into lemons.
Intercalated within this portrayal were a number of thirty-second fictitious narratives of objects available for purchase, the utilization or unavailability of which rendered members of the species content or dissatisfied, respectively.
It's fitting that I write this from New York; it was here between 2009-2010 that Joshua Glenn collaborated with writer Rob Walker from New York Times Magazine to test his theory that affixing narratives to objects may increase their economic worth.
"I embrace it, because it's part of the narrative of the object," she said.
