The Epistemology of Narrative

The story of the universe (The universe is not a story.)

The story of the atom (Energy is not a story.)

The story of the earth (The world is not a story.)

The story of evolution (Change is not a story.)

The story of life (Death is not the end.)

The story of sex (And is not a story.)

The story of Africa (Transmigration is not a story.)

The story of humanity (Trans-/-vert-/-ibility is not a story.)

The story of women (She is not a story.)

The story of power (Play is not a story.)

The story of technology (The hand is not a story.)

The story of politics (Sociability is not a story.)

The story of mathematics (∞/0 is not a story.)

The story of science (Experimentation is not a story.)

The story of computers (The incomputable cannot be recounted.)

The story of art (Composition is.)

The story of transformation (Time is not.)

The story of music (Rhythm does not have a plot.)

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The story of the eye (Seeing is not a story.)

The story of consciousness (Embodiment is not a story.)

The story of self-reflexivity (The loop has no tale.)

The story of love (With is not a story.)

The story of philosophy (Knowing is not a story.)

The story of बुद्ध 佛 Buddha (Waking up is not a story.)

The story of language (The word—reverberating verb—is not a story.)

The story of poetry (Making is not a story.)

The story of story (Happening is not a story—and neither is story.)

The Epistemology of Narrative
Narrative < Latin narrare, from gnarus, knowing, from gno-, to know. (What does narrative think it knows?)	Dividing reality into a chain of causes and effects, narrative binds the mind to time.	The simplicity of narrative: what it cannot explain it simply leaves out.
The Narrative Episteme Essence Character Individuality Desire Sentiment Action/Passion Subject/Object Cause/Effect Explanation Continuity Consistency Opposition Teleology	Immanence: A Nonnarrative Episteme Event Performance Hybridity Creation Affect Transition Interbeing Unfolding Composition Diversification Complexity Paradox Process	Process and Paradox: Corporeality as Transformation The narrative body is constructed by conflict and contradiction. Transcending story, the paradoxical body is inside and outside, one and many, real and virtual, finite and transfinite, object and subject, continuous and discontinuous, necessary and aleatory,...
Narrative as substantiation, solidifying processes into substances and signs.		If narrative's a mirror, it reflects the mind’s blindnesses (which accounts for its phenomenal success).

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What separates narrative from innocent entertainment? Its pretension to capture reality and deliver truth.	Narratives’s perceptual materialism—the real is the perceptible: In story, perceptible thought (verbal consciousness) represses imperceptible thought (the nonverbal unconscious).	Narrative a cognitively basic form of realism. (Can the mind perceive reality without the filter of story?)
Narrative as self-perpetuating delusion: feeding one another, the distortions of desire and the distortions of memory are mutually reinforcing.	The space of narrative circumscribed by the orbit of desire on the one hand and the ambit—and gambits—of meaning on the other.	If story’s a mirror, it’s cracked and clouded.
Whether representing itself as harmless entertainment or purveyor of truth, story cleverly evades criticism.		If there is truth in story, where is it? (In story's incessant search for reality, has it ever found it?)

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Narrative form an image of desire’s body fallen into language, trapped inside time.	Confusing continuity with discontinuity, narrative sees continuity where there is discontinuity (the self, desire, time) and discontinuity where there is continuity (the body/mind-in-the-world).	Maybe what we call the self is nothing but the incessant chatter of story.
The teleological time of desire's red arrow, avid for storied tomorrows.	Narrative a superb mnemotechnique—but reality is not a memory.	Reality is too messy for the plot, so story zealously cleans it up.
Narrative segments interpenetrant this-this-this into disjunct then/then/then.	The order of narrative is not the order of things.

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