Comments on: Telling stories about stories http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4556 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Saheli http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4556/comment-page-1#comment-7876 Saheli Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:53:04 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4556#comment-7876 I think Jenkins would be my holiday reading if I hadn't already loaded up on texts about the raid on Harper's Ferry in anticipation of the local University library closure/furlough. The ambiance of the video is great--it totally capture the party and yet completely transforms it. My +1 guest later told me that the whole experience was very dreamlike: the white walls, the art, the architecture, the inexplicable racks of clothes everywhere, some people he knew, most people he didn't, and people very earnestly talking about some woman named Annabel Scheme and banana boxes while handling strange objects. Plus the awesome GAFFTA music installation in the front. It would be funny to have someone guide-less walk into that experience and try to make sense of it. Also <a href="http://subjunctive.net/klog/" rel="nofollow">ToastyKen</a> is awesomely creeped out by his evidence. I think Jenkins would be my holiday reading if I hadn’t already loaded up on texts about the raid on Harper’s Ferry in anticipation of the local University library closure/furlough.

The ambiance of the video is great–it totally capture the party and yet completely transforms it. My +1 guest later told me that the whole experience was very dreamlike: the white walls, the art, the architecture, the inexplicable racks of clothes everywhere, some people he knew, most people he didn’t, and people very earnestly talking about some woman named Annabel Scheme and banana boxes while handling strange objects. Plus the awesome GAFFTA music installation in the front. It would be funny to have someone guide-less walk into that experience and try to make sense of it.

Also ToastyKen is awesomely creeped out by his evidence.

]]> By: Mcburton http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4556/comment-page-1#comment-7874 Mcburton Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:37:22 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4556#comment-7874 Robin, do you have some links/cites for the Jenkins work on fiction as platform? I have been exploring the notion of "science" (that is to say knowledge production and distribution) as a form of story telling. This seems to fit, the most successful scientific discoveries are platforms that others can build upon! Kinda of like Kuhn's paradigm shift but more folksy. Robin,
do you have some links/cites for the Jenkins work on fiction as platform? I have been exploring the notion of “science” (that is to say knowledge production and distribution) as a form of story telling. This seems to fit, the most successful scientific discoveries are platforms that others can build upon! Kinda of like Kuhn’s paradigm shift but more folksy.

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