Fractal Narrative
About the Relationship Between Geometries and Technology and Its Impact on Narrative Spaces
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2014
396 pages
978-3-8394-2829-0 (ISBN)
Description
Fractals suggest recursivity, infinity and the repetition of a principle of order. They are digital pictures of the universe's continuous movement ignored by mankind during millennia.This book investigates the relationship existing between geometries and technology, and how it guided cognitive processes and thus the organization of narrative spaces. The author proposes a new approach for the study of media remarking that from Bacon's camera obscura to von Neumann's computers both geometries and technology strongly influenced the organization of narrative spaces, which acquired a fractal character.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
160
160 s/w Abbildungen
zahlr. Abb.
File size
21,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-2829-0 (9783839428290)
DOI
10.14361/transcript.9783839428290
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German A. Duarte
Fractal Narrative
About the Relationship Between Geometries and Technology and Its Impact on Narrative Spaces
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09/2014
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German A. Duarte holds a Ph.D. (2013) in Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research interests include history of media, film history, new technologies in audiovisual narratives, cognitive-cultural economy and philosophy.
Content
- cover Fractal Narrative
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 SOME NOTIONS OF AN INFINITE SPACE
- 1.1 Geodesy, or the First Translations of Nature
- 1.2 Recursion as Creator of Infinity
- 1.3 The Destruction of Space
- 1.4 Toward Fractality
- 1.5 Some Words About Chaos
- 1.6 Fractus, Fracta, Fractum
- 1.7 Veritas Filia Temporis
- 2 THE GEOMETRICAL MACHINE
- 2.1 Perspective: The Geometry of Sight
- 2.2 The Camera Obscura: A Phenomenon of Externalization
- 2.3 Self-Similarity: Fold Into Fold (Leibniz and the Microscope)
- 2.4 Self-Similarity as a Narrative Tool
- 2.5 Mise en Abyme: Blazon Into Blazon
- 2.6 The Panorama: An Example of 'Gigantomanie des Mediums'
- 2.7 Panorama and Moving Panorama as Proto-Fractal Spaces
- 2.8 Photographic Technology: A Translation Tool of Nature's Shadows
- 2.9 Stereoscopic Vision
- 2.10 Photographic Technology: A Nature's Pencil
- 2.11 A New Space Which Accepts Movement
- 3 FILM AS SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
- 3.1 Visualizing Multidimensional Spaces
- 3.2 A Geodesy of Film Narrative
- 3.3 Ideal Elements in Narrative Space
- 3.4 A New Relationship Between Paradigma and Syntagma
- 3.5 Hypertext: A Digital Episteme
- 3.6 Toward a Strict Fractal Narrative
- 4 FRACTAL NARRATIVE
- 4.1 Media-Activism: The Creation of Fractal Spaces
- 4.2 Fractalis Narratio Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
