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Mi Pa

@baltusv.bsky.social

Scanties elsterwise,
and mood conflamed,
For your moodwrought misanderings,
Your are justly enblamed

Deconvolute your loingarb,
And retemper your rage
Lest this vexing narrativity
Envandal your biograph page

October 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM Everybody can reply

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Todd

@kinetograph.bsky.social

This film is a direct assault on the elitist paradigm of narrativity. When viewed through the prism of submaterialist objectivism, this film's narrative comes from the collective unconscious. Or at least the filmmakers were unconscious when they made this movie. #BMovieManiacs

October 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM Everybody can reply

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Nina Beguš

@ninabegus.bsky.social

Stay tuned for a lexicon of narrative terms relevant to AI, workshops on AI narrativity at UC Berkeley and at a CS conference, and upcoming papers coming from this collaboration 🚀

October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Amaranth M

@jazzelves.bsky.social

This is not a game expressed in "hard" or "soft" moves, and it IS a game that uses familiar old verbs; initiative rounds, wound points, actions related to very direct applications of "capability" instead of indirect narrativity (usually, we'll get there) and more. The characters are very "Thing-y".

September 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Wm Henry Morris

@wmhenrymorris.com

BRB, writing a novel where the outdated tropes each genre is sensitive about fans of other genres pointing at to characterize the entire genre battle it out to be the ultimate winner of the narrativity crown but then realize they actually need to work together to defeat the final boss: MetaFiction

September 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM Everybody can reply

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Gaia Jane Thomas

@gaiajane.bsky.social

Crisis of narrativity - here for it.

#COVID #disability #DisabilityStudies #CripStudies

Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · Sep 5

A discussion of chronic illness, the crisis of narrativity, and the process of creative recuperation, with Katie McLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, who both have Long Covid. Part one of a two-part series.https://thepolyphony.org/2024/12/13/chronic-illnesss-creative-recuperation/

Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation

Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.

thepolyphony.org

September 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM Everybody can reply

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Alec Finlay

@alecfinlay.bsky.social

A discussion of chronic illness, the crisis of narrativity, and the process of creative recuperation, with Katie McLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, who both have Long Covid. Part one of a two-part series.https://thepolyphony.org/2024/12/13/chronic-illnesss-creative-recuperation/

Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation

Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.

thepolyphony.org

September 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Isabel Picornell

@picornell.bsky.social

Thinking of how narrativity comes into understanding meaning in social media threads. Creating a sort of narrative where none exists in order to make sense of posts. I'm reminded of Barthes who spoke about the human tendency to create causality where none explicitly exists.
#Narratives #Linguistics

February 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Alex de Campi

@alexdecampi.bsky.social

Invisible Cities is very stop-start. Baron has the most narrativity, followed by Castle. So it depends on what you’re up for—a book you can lose yourself in, or one you can pick up and put down easily around other things.

August 19, 2024 at 12:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Zentrum für Theorien in der historischen Forschung

@zthf.bsky.social

On July 10th, Stefan Haas will speak about "Nach der Narrativität. Warum für die Geschichtswissenschaft eine eigene Argumentationstheorie essentiell ist?"
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
| #theoryofhistory #Narrativity

June 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Vex Corvine

@vexcorvine.itch.io

It shall be done. Your technology will be dead by dawn. May the gods help us all. *sweeps off into the suddenly fallen night since that helps with narrativity*

September 20, 2023 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply

arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language

@cscl-bot.bsky.social

we connect elements of narrativity with fundamental aspects of framing, and present a framework which formalizes and operationalizes such aspects. We annotate and release a data set of news articles in the climate change domain, analyze the dominance [2/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00737v1]

June 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM Everybody can reply

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Nicole Hennig

@nic221.bsky.social

Confabulation: The Surprising Value of Large Language Model Hallucinations https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04175v1 #AI #hallucination

Text Shot: This paper presents a systematic defense of large language model (LLM) hallucinations or 'confabulations' as a potential resource instead of a categorically negative pitfall. The standard view is that confabulations are inherently problematic and AI research should eliminate this flaw. In this paper, we argue and empirically demonstrate that measurable semantic characteristics of LLM confabulations mirror a human propensity to utilize increased narrativity as a cognitive resource for sense-making and communication. In other words, it has potential value.

June 13, 2024 at 3:02 AM Everybody can reply

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Jason Guthartz

@restructures.bsky.social

Graham Lock described the TAW as a critique of Western music theory, jazz journalism, aesthetics, logics, philosophies & politics.
Not a "single-viewpoint linear narrative" but a "3-dimensional model of narrativity" that "tries to move between the real and the meta-real".
www.dukeupress.edu/blutopia

Blutopia

www.dukeupress.edu

March 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Dr Anna Hájková

@ankahajkova.bsky.social

I get asked a fair bit what are the current happening fields in Holocaust history, in my opinion it is sexuality and gender, Jewish Holocaust history, resistance/antifascism, and testimony/narrativity. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/godare...

Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays across Disciplines | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

www.berghahnbooks.com

November 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM Everybody can reply

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Pookleblinky

@pookleblinky.bsky.social

You're in your second year of university when you get sick, and never get better.

You're now in that liminal space, the space between two societal destinations no one is really expected to be in.

And suddenly you've got more narrativity than you ever wanted.

April 13, 2024 at 9:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Erin Shanendoah

@erinshanendoah.bsky.social

Love this! One of the panels I'm planning for next year's Narrativity is on storytelling through poetry. This is definitely going on my list as an example of it done beautifully.

December 1, 2024 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply

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John Laudun

@laudun.bsky.social

Recently, @aaronrosspowell.com asked what people thought about LitRPGs, indicating he didn't get their appeal, especially in the face of the rise in narrativity in TTRPGs across many, many genres. I'm sympathetic to his question: I find the new breed of TTRPGs exciting ... (1/2)

July 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM Everybody can reply

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rss.dfaria.eu

@rss.dfaria.eu

blog.apaonline.org: Slackers Against Narrativity

Disclaimer: Sara Bizarro is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the American Philosophical Association or the Blog of the APA...

October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM Everybody can reply

Hannes Bajohr

@hannesbajohr.de

“Cohesion without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form” discusses the limits of narrativity in AI, but also the limits of the argument for these limits. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form

PDF | On Dec 20, 2024, Hannes Bajohr published Cohesion Without Coherence: Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Form | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

www.researchgate.net

January 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM Everybody can reply

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UofA Map/GIS Librarian

@wyman10.bsky.social

Margaret Pearce
Coming home to indigenous place names in Canada, 2017.
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
For more information/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3
#MargaretPearce #Indigenous #PlaceNames #Narratives #Songs #MapDayMay25
William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC

Margaret Pearce
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)

Pearce, M. W. (2017). Coming home : to indigenous place names in Canada (S. J. Hornsby (Ed.)). Canadian-American Center.

The map honors Indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of Indigenous authority through place names. Commissioned by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, Director of the Canadian-American Center, Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada was researched and designed by Dr. Margaret Wickens Pearce. The map depicts Indigenous place names across Canada, shared by permission of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities and people. The names express territorial rights and describe the shapes, sounds, and stories of sovereign lands. The names mark the locations of the gathering places, the communities, the places of danger and beauty, and the places where treaties were signed. The names are ancient and recent, both in and outside of time, and they express and assert the Indigenous presence across the Canadian landscape in Indigenous languages. The map does not depict all of the Indigenous place names of Canada, nor are all Indigenous Nations and communities represented. Beyond the map’s names are thousands upon thousands more, an ever growing and expanding atlas of intimate, geographical knowledge and experience. The intention of the map is to create respect for Indigenous homelands and sovereignties, and a feeling for and understanding of the place names.

[portion] of "Coming Home (Indigenous place names map). Published in 2007 by Margret Wikens Peirce. On this map Georgian Bay is called Mnidoo-gamii Ojibwe for "Spirit Lake".

Pearce, M. W. (2008). Framing the days: Place and narrative in cartography. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 35(1), 17-32–32.

ABSTRACT: One of the themes of critical cartography is the question of how to map space as it is experienced. The conventions of Western cartographic language—the visual variables and their grammar— are structured to communicate spaces of homogeneity and modernity, not the spaces shaped by human experience. How then can we map place? I review some of the ways in which mapmakers have addressed this question in their visual and written works and propose another technique for uncovering place, using narrativity. Through the example of a historical map project, I consider the dialectic of place and narrative and demonstrate how this dialectic can be encoded in cartographic language. KEYWORDS: Place, narrative, cartographic language, graphic variables.

and a passage that is a personal fav. of mine...

Voyageurs... structured their landscape with their own unique measures of distance. Their more precise means of estimating distance was temporal, the distance that a canoe could travel in a day and the activities that shaped that day.

Each day was broken down into “pipes,” or smoking breaks, granted in regular intervals of about every half hour to hour. A pipe was a break but also the distance between breaks; each leg of the day was expressed in pipe measure.

Songs were another temporal unit translated to horizontal movement. North West Company voyageur Alexander Ross bragged, for example, that he could paddle fifty songs in a day.

May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Han-earl Park

@hanearlpark.bsky.social

“I don’t know if my interest in narrativity is fueled by these artists and their works, or if my compositional and improvisative concerns are making me seek a deeper connection with fiction and the telling of stories.” #juno3

“And I was reading N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became while mixing Juno 3, and her book—her voice and her writing style—became a constant source of inspiration during that process. Certain techniques of writing, say, the way Jemisin evokes place and subjectivity and interiority (the people and places in her book feel so real to me—like I know them personally), would push me to do certain things with the mix. Jemisin’s book demonstrate to me what was possible, and how I might go about achieving those effects in sounded form.”

February 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM Everybody can reply

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AstleyTheeBear ➡️ CFZ

@astley.bsky.social

It's kind of tragic that to survive, 2005 Doctor Who did the really hard thing of rebooting visually, structurally, narrativity. Shedding all that baggage and lore...

And then the last 11 years of the franchise have been "no actually. Everything was better back then. Fuck you."

December 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Pat Scaramuzza

@genocideman.bsky.social

Here are two versions of a promo I made for Narrativity, the best little writing convention in the Midwest. Which one do you like better?

Narrativity is June 26-29 in Minneapolis this year! Hope to see some of you there! www.narrativity.fun

Line art of an anthropomorphic weasel sitting at a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'.

Line art of a feral weasel standing on a stack of books and a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'.

May 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

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the j

@j0.lol

isnt that when jesus was born. The Narrativity

January 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply

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