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torpedo the ark Home About Index Events Gastautoren Programm 7 Feb 2024 Notes on 'The Crisis of Narration' by Byung-Chul Han (Part 1) (Polity Press, 2024)     I.    Byung-Chul Han has had a new book published in English translation: The Crisis of Narration [a].    It's another slim little work which, like Jason Alexander's Acting Without Acting (2009), is not so much a book as a pamphlet [b]. Nevertheless, I coughed up the £12.99 asking price on Amazon for the paperback and thought I would offer a running commentary on it here as I read it over dinner ...     II.      Han provides a short preface that opens: "Everyone is talking about 'narratives'." [vii]    And I had to smile at this assertion as I can't imagine anyone outside of academia ever using the word narrative and although the word crisis is very popular with politicians and political commentators - the cost of living crisis, the NHS crisis, Middle East crisis, etc. - I don't think they care too much about the crisis of nar

torpedo the ark: Notes on 'The Crisis of Narration' by Byung-Chul Han (Part 1) Pages Home About Index Events Gastautoren Programm 7 Feb 2024 Notes on 'The Crisis of Narration' by Byung-Chul Han (Part 1) (Polity Press, 2024) I. Byung-Chul Han has had a new book published in English translation: The Crisis of Narration [a] . It's another slim little work which, like Jason Alexander's Acting Without Acting (2009), is not so much a book as a pamphlet [b] . Nevertheless, I coughed up the £12.99 asking price on Amazon for the paperback and thought I would offer a running commentary on it here a

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