his book has its origins in 2015, when the three of us and our colleague Frank Us-beck, having just finished a project on the poetics and politics of narrative, becameincreasingly interested in thinking and theorizing beyond this seemingly ubiqui-tous form. Having focused so much on the well-established category of narrative,we now wanted to divert our attention to artifacts and formations that…
This equation suggests that if relationships 1 and 2 are opposedin type, then relationships 3 and 4 will be similarly opposed.A similarity in type between 1 and 2, or 3 and 4, though allowedby the formula, is taken to be a very rare occurrence. IndeedL6vi -Strauss suggests that this latter type of structure couldwell be expected to break down or at lea…
The stadium, adorned with flags from throughout the world, is packed. On a central arena, thousands of performers present a rich, colorful spectacle to spectators both present and the millions throughout the planet watching it on television. At last, the parade of nations starts, beginning with the Greek delegation and continuing with those of every nation in the world, with that of the host co…