Sloterdijk has argued that the "excess reality" mobilized by modern energies outstrips any narrative of origins and continuity that can tie a society together.
But I think there's a huge upside to appreciating it as a fiction, a masterwork of the human imagination, a brilliant narrative, an origin myth whose aesthetic truth leaves me awe-struck by its moral truth.
Such relations are rhizomatic in the sense that O'Riley (2005) describes them as "dynamic, heterogeneous, and nondichotomous; … they propagate, displace, join, circle back, fold … de- and reterritorialize space" (p. 27) where there is a non-hierarchy of multiple narratives, without origin or central root to serve as a source.
Evolutionary psychologists and literary scholars are teaming up to explore narrative's Darwinian origins.
The litigation so far -- a mounting pile of evidence and briefs -- provides a detailed narrative of the origins and rise of a mega-brand, and a primer on trademark law.
By the finale, it was a weirdly timely narrative about the origins of female rage, presented with an icy, dreamlike clarity and strengthened by a restrained performance from Sarah Gadon.
Angela Merkel's coalition government in Germany also operates within clear political limits, partly because a faulty narrative about the origins of the eurozone crisis has been circulating in Germany for half a decade.
He presents a new approach to how we should view our place in the universe, and in doing so, weaves an awe inspiring narrative of the origins of life.
The skeptical view of love, often tenderly at odds with sentiments of romantic yearning, loneliness and regret, gives "Marry Me a Little" a more convincing semblance of narrative than its origins might indicate.
Outsiders routinely mock Fard's narrative of racial origins, in which white people were created by a megalomaniacal scientist named Yakub roughly six thousand years ago.
