Resistance to Narrative

The normativity of narrative—resistance is deviance.

What can still be done in narrative? What can only be done outside? Do we need to give up story, or just tell different stories? Can narrative be salvaged, or only overcome?

The folly (or wisdom?) of critiquing narrative within narrative. But to criticize narrative from outside is like attacking a walled city defended by guns and cannons with bows and arrows.

Can we still afford the pleasures of narrative?

But how can any one resist the overwhelming hegemony of narrative? What might collective resistance to narrative look like?

There are more and more signs indicating the decadence of narrative. How to expedite its drawn-out demise? (And after narrative? How will we tell our unstories? Or will we also unlearn our compulsion for telling?)

Can we summon the future without resorting to the fancies of narrative?

In the contest between narrative and not-narrative, might there be a third?

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