Future Narratives

1 - Preface and Acknowledgements [Seite 7]
2 - 1 The Theory and Poetics of Future Narratives: A Narrative [Seite 13]
2.1 - 1.1 Future Narratives: A New Kind of Narrative [Seite 13]
2.2 - 1.2 What Narratives Do for You [Seite 16]
2.3 - 1.3 Approaching the Future I: Great Shock - Utopian Tales No Future Narratives! [Seite 21]
2.4 - 1.4 Approaching the Future II: The Unbearable Gravity of the Present [Seite 24]
2.5 - 1.5 Capturing the Openness of the Moment: Some Basics About Nodes as Building Blocks of Future Narratives [Seite 28]
2.6 - 1.6 Run Lola Run - Only a Pre-Cursor? [Seite 33]
2.7 - 1.7 The Road Not Taken [Seite 36]
2.8 - 1.8 Doing the Shuffle: Lola Runs Again, Books in Boxes, and Slatted Pages [Seite 37]
2.9 - 1.9 Decision (Choice) Theory and Game Theory, in Relation to FNs [Seite 43]
2.10 - 1.10 Into the Heart of the Matter: A Node's Interior Life - Character, Space, Time [Seite 54]
2.11 - 1.11 Nodal Power [Seite 59]
2.12 - 1.12 Varieties of Nodes [Seite 61]
2.13 - 1.13 Interactivity [Seite 63]
2.14 - 1.14 Simulation [Seite 66]
2.15 - 1.15 As Node Leads on to Node: Nodal Structures and Their Representations [Seite 68]
2.16 - 1.16 Why 'Narrative' Anyway? [Seite 79]
2.17 - 1.17 Stranger than Fiction: The Failure of Prediction, the Virtue of Scenarios, and Why FNs Are the Key to Our Future [Seite 87]
2.18 - 1.18 The Human Brain as an 'Anticipation Machine' [Seite 109]
2.19 - 1.19 The Way Ahead [Seite 117]
3 - 2 Formal Models for Future Narratives [Seite 121]
3.1 - 2.1 Introduction [Seite 121]
3.2 - 2.2 Representations of FNs [Seite 121]
3.2.1 - 2.2.1 Nodal Graphs [Seite 121]
3.2.2 - 2.2.2 Aspects [Seite 124]
3.2.3 - 2.2.3 Consequences [Seite 127]
3.2.4 - 2.2.4 Reaching the same Situation in two different Ways [Seite 129]
3.3 - 2.3 Quantification of Openness [Seite 130]
3.3.1 - 2.3.1 The Spectrum of Consequences [Seite 130]
3.3.2 - 2.3.2 The Spectrum of the Agent [Seite 139]
3.3.3 - 2.3.3 The Degree of Openness of a Situation: Nodal Power [Seite 139]
3.4 - 2.4 Advanced Models for Similarities [Seite 142]
3.4.1 - 2.4.1 Similarity [Seite 143]
3.4.2 - 2.4.2 Formal Definition for Models of Type II [Seite 145]
3.4.3 - 2.4.3 Models of Type II without underlying Subtractive Aspects [Seite 147]
3.4.4 - 2.4.4 Path Dependency of External Aspects [Seite 147]
3.4.5 - 2.4.5 Computing Nodal Power in the Presence of External Aspects [Seite 149]
3.5 - 2.5 Reversibility [Seite 151]
3.5.1 - 2.5.1 Undoing Choices [Seite 151]
3.5.2 - 2.5.2 Degree of Reversibility [Seite 151]
3.6 - 2.6 Topological Classification of Future Narratives [Seite 153]
3.6.1 - 2.6.1 The Topology of the Nodal Graph [Seite 153]
3.6.2 - 2.6.2 Geometrical Classification: Homology Groups [Seite 157]
3.6.3 - 2.6.3 Classification including Aspects: Cohomology Groups [Seite 160]
3.6.4 - 2.6.4 Conclusion [Seite 165]
3.7 - 2.7 Appendix: Basic Mathematical Concepts [Seite 166]
3.7.1 - 2.7.1 Sets and Functions [Seite 166]
3.7.2 - 2.7.2 Basic Graph Theory [Seite 167]
3.7.3 - 2.7.3 Integration [Seite 168]
4 - 3 Future Narratives: The Media-Historical Moment [Seite 174]
4.1 - 3.1 The Historicity of 'Future' [Seite 174]
4.2 - 3.2 The Probability Calculus [Seite 180]
4.3 - 3.3 Insurances [Seite 189]
4.4 - 3.4 Projects and the Stock Market: Great Expectations [Seite 197]
4.5 - 3.5 The Coffeehouse and the Idea of Truth-as-Process [Seite 202]
4.6 - 3.6 The Plot Thickens: The Modern Realist Novel [Seite 212]
4.7 - 3.7 Future Narratives and Historical Mediality [Seite 219]
5 - Works Cited [Seite 229]