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Story Lab
See also:   [STORY LAB SITE]
            [Story WEB stuff]
            [Story Lab Team] (on-going dialog; diary)
            [ATECH Program] (Arts & Technology)
   
            [terms] (index of indexes)
            [Space-Time Conveyor]

See also:  [Borges] Jorge Luis Borges; Lib of Babel
           [Swift] Johnathan Swift; 
           [Stories]
    
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NOTE: The Outline for Story Line was created by Thomas Riccio and Mihai Nadin
      and ammended/updated/etc'ed by the Story Lab team 
      -- your humble scribe, Frank.



1. Story-Telling:  Who, what, when, where, how?
   What is a story?
   A way of seeing, articulating, constructiong a world?
   A way of connecting realities?
   Tell a Story; your story?



*** need somthing about MYTH  *** micro view *** 
    QM, fractals, pixels, atoms, bits, primary colours, etc, etc
    fibonacci numbers, 
    or is it that a myth is composed of the "atoms" of story?

1.r Healing (as process, etc)
1.s The Para-Normal
1.t The Key to History
1.u Over-Extension of Ideas/Concepts
1.v Visions
1.w Micro: The Ascension
1.x The Micro-Purpose of Story (bourgeoise unleashed!)
1.y Micro: Christianisation of the Modern World
1.z The Micro-Journey of the Shaman

*** MACRO SCOPIC VIEW ***
2. Mythology: The Story of Cultures.
   A way of creating, organising, and paricipating in the world.
   A paradigm for being in the world: Story/myth as working model.
   Myth to culture to society to daily lives in the concentric myth's story.

*** MEGA SCOPIC VIEW ***
3. Mythology: The template of realities.
   Myth's story as bringer of order from chaos; creating "reality".
   Myth's story as generator of memes; memory packets.

4. Ritual: The story performed.
   Ritual as a story "place" manifested.
   Place as the reference of ritual's story.
   Ritual as a story told in on multiple levels,
     and interactions: word, action, objects,
     movements, sounds, sights, smells, and
     atmosphere.
   Ritual's stories as a place to heal, communicate origins,
     and belong [to].
   The Body of a story: the story we share, beg/middle/end.
   Biology in a place - an extrapolated metaphor.

5. The Anatomy of Story (intro)
   Story, Plot, Theme, Character, Style, Genre, Expression.
   Thinking and being in episodes.
   The techniques and elements of story telling and making.
   The necessity, centrality, variety, and simplicity of plots.

6. Story Moves from One Place to Another.
   The removal from one place and origins to a new place and reality.
   Breakdown of the old, making of the new: Post-modernism.
   Creating a new story: The confluence of cultures and stories.
   The metapor of the body updated and transformed by technology;
     the microscopic meets the far terrestrial in simultaneity.

7. Story in a Changing World.
   The Chasm between YESTERDAY and TOMORROW.
   
8. From Orality to Writing.
   Signs to Language.
   Individual and Collective Writing.
   Language and Logic.  ** and IL-logic !!! ***

9. Language and the Visual
   How many words in a look?

10. Literacy as Mediateing Mechanism

11. THe Sense of Design
    Drawing on the Future
    Drawing on the Virtual
 
12. From Democracy to Media-ocracy - a Sense of the Future.
    The Interactive Future.
    Transcending Literacy.

13. A new Story paradigm emerges: The End of History. 
    A strucrtural re-ordering of the world: 
      A new mythology, ritual, and body.
    Reflections of social and cultural evolution.
    The collapsing of stories and cultures.
    Machine and semi-conductor as memory.
    Over-lapping and inter-connected realities: Non-linearity.
   



Readings
Genesis, chapters 1-12]

Grimm's Fair Tales]