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The Abode of Fancy review: Fancy footwork

Edit The Irish Times 17 Sep 2016
“What do such large, loose, baggy monsters, with their queer elements of the accidental and the arbitrary, artistically mean?” With his Russian contemporaries in mind, Henry James asked this question in a 1921 essay about the lengthy novels of the 19th century ... The Abode of Fancy’s structure shows a striking amount of thought, from its framing device to the multiple strains of metanarrative that comprise the whole ... ....

Scattering of sins

Edit Deccan Herald 03 Sep 2016
Lead review. The protagonist Jithendran dies as the book begins. “Man is the only creature that perishes before attaining full growth!” he says, making his last statement while listening to music with his wife ... “The quintessence of the Bhagavad Gita was the contrivance of converting one who turned away from violence into a killer.” The metanarrative exists at different levels....

Where to find A Girl’s Place in Melbourne – the art of perception (RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Aug 2016
(Source. RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) ... Clare McCracken, PhD student in the School of Art, said that while these state-sanctioned metanarratives are important to a city's identity, it is the 'petits récits', or small narratives of everyday individuals, which give us an insight into the true makeup of place ... 'As a gender we so often respond by subconsciously moderating our behaviour and 'just getting on with it' ... Story....

How religious commitment affects people's reactions to medical advancements

Edit The Oklahoman 03 Aug 2016
Highly religious Americans are more concerned than other U.S. adults about medical advancements designed to enhance human potential, according to a new Pew Research Center report on public understanding of biomedical technologies ... adults in general ... Religious reactions ... "Science is unable to provide us with any kind of metanarrative or overarching story that tells us what humanity is for, why we exist, our purpose or where we are headed....

Blog: Small World? (St Mary's University College, Twickenham)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. St Mary's University College, Twickenham). The 13 World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics took place in Edinburgh from the 14-17 June ... There was a plenary session given by Prof Ashok Acharya from Delhi University on the question 'Do we need a metanarrative of health for the global South?', but the vast majority of speakers seemed to be from Europe or the US ... Dr Trevor Stammers ... (noodl. 34348424) ....

Meaning-making through storytelling – the ways in which students use storytelling and reflection to reauthor the academic journey (The Association of Commonwealth Universities)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
While the story prompts aimed to elicit raw, experience-based narratives from the students they almost always transitioned into providing a broader, more encompassing narrative that articulated their unfolding 'life experience' - a metanarrative of self-identity and student experience ... Interestingly, the dominant negative metanarratives introduce a 'shadow' that obscures the alternative stories of identity and possibility....

SUPERHOT VR might end up being the most meta VR game yet

Edit Kill Screen 16 Jun 2016
The Superhot Team announced SUPERHOT VR for the Oculus Touch this week, a project that’s been in the works since late 2013 ... An inventive, tongue-in- cheek critique of traditional first-person shooters, SUPERHOT introduces players to a new fictional VR game called superhot.exe, which sets in motion a series of weird, metanarrative events ... could be yet another layer added to the game’s plot when it hits Oculus ... See if it hurts ... ....

Thought for the weekend

Edit Financial Times 27 May 2016
... not the corporate one, because I believed then and believe still that the experimental journalism of the future will embrace the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative....

Review: Prodigals by Greg Jackson has drama, drugs and cut-throat dialogue

Edit The Irish Times 30 Apr 2016
‘It went on like this for pages, mesmerising, impenetrable.” A character in one of Greg Jackson’s stories describes finding a manuscript written by his girlfriend ... “There’s a pitch you live at, Ben ... “People are bullets, fired.” ... In a later story, the deliberately disjointed Metanarrative Breakdown, the narrator and his friend Gaby discuss “the prime fabric of meaning” while off their heads on “a crack rock that was probably meth”....

Marvel marches on, but when will the bubble burst?

Edit The Irish Times 29 Apr 2016
Astrophysicists tell us that our universe is expanding. But can there possibly be enough dark matter for us to keep up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)?. The box-office figures and even the titles – stay turned for Avengers Infinity Part I and Avengers Infinity Part II, scheduled to hit your local multiplex in 2018 and 2019, respectively – suggest otherwise ... Captain America ... Chris Evans is a little less sure about metanarratives....

How Our Stone-Age Brains Get in the Way of Having a Smart Democracy

Edit Alternet 17 Apr 2016
Transcript. ... No ... Is he really an American? Isn’t he really a Muslim underneath it all and wasn’t he born in Kenya? And they hear that and that plays into a narrative, a metanarrative, a metacognition that resonates with them ... So they create this metanarrative in their head and everything that is consistent with that metanarrative, they wind up believing ... These are metanarratives that help explain who we are and what values we cherish....

Near east and the nearer Brussels

Edit Jakarta Post 29 Mar 2016
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU. “multiculturalism is dead in Europe’’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead? That much comes from a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize — in a grand metanarrative of dogmatic universalism — their appearance as a coherent union, as if they themselves lived a long, cordial and credible history of multiculturalism. Hence, this claim and its resonating debate is of course false ... Tweet ....

Near East And the Nearer Brussels Euro(h)ope Possible?

Edit Modern Ghana 29 Mar 2016
By Anis H. Bajrektarevic. There is a claim constantly circulating the EU. ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize – in a grand metanarrative of dogmatic universalism – their appearance as of the coherent Union, as if they themselves lived a long, cordial and credible history of multicul-turalism ... Anis H ... contact....
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