Narrating Complexity
Provisional Table of Contents
Part I: (scene setting)
- Introduction and overview: who, what, why (Richard Walsh, Susan Stepney, UYork)
- Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists (Richard Walsh, UYork)
- Complex Systems for Narrative Theorists (Susan Stepney, UYork)
- A Brief History of Systems Thinking (Leo Caves, Susan Stepney, UYork; Emma Uprichard; UWarwick)
Part II: (contributed essays exploring the range of issues) Provisional list of chapters (TBC):
- Sense and Wonder: Complexity and the limits of Narrative Understanding. (Richard Walsh, UYork)
- The benefit of doubt: embracing complexity and uncertainty. (James Dyke, Simon McGregor USouthampton)
- A Simple Story of the Complex Mind? A Rhetorical Analysis of Cognitive Science Texts. (Merja Polvinen, UHelsinki)
- A Mistake That Worked: On the Narrative Dynamics of Knowledge and Ignorance. (Marina Grishakova, UTartu, Estonia)
- When Robots tell each other Stories, or The Emergence of Artificial Fiction. (Alan Winfield, UWE)
- Plato with a movie camera: visually thinking of complexity. (Marthe-Sophie Zeevenhooven, documentary maker)
- Augmenting Communication: Peering at Narratives and Complexity through a Digital Arts Lens. (Lynn Parker, UAbertay Dundee)
- The secret life of civilization. (James Dyke, USouthampton)
- Our complex Earth. (James Dyke, USouthampton)
- Why do we trust computer simulations? (James Dyke, USouthampton)
- Irreducible complexity and narrating the endarkenment. (James Dyke, USouthampton)
- Gardening Complex Systems, and other metaphors. (Leo Caves, Susan Stepney, UYork)
- Complex Films for Complex Minds. (Maria Poulaki, UvA, Netherlands)
- Switches, feedbacks and integrators - how networks network (James Bown, UAbertay Dundee)
Part III: (analysis and synthesis)
- Analysis of contributions (Richard Walsh, Susan Stepney, UYork)
- From Simplex to Complex Narrative: a new model (Susan Stepney, Richard Walsh, UYork)