I’m arguing for a realm of reflection, disengaged from the instrumental, so that one can reflect on the precise place of things in the world. But it should not exclude this more reflective realm. ![]() And one knows perfectly well why we need that. I mean, there’s been so much emphasis on STEM education. How do we know what we know? And here, I think, narrative fictions, novels, actually are very helpful instruments. And it seems to me that the role of the humanities is precisely to step back from the instrumental to consider notions of value, and notions of epistemology. But that’s not all there is in the world. PB: I have nothing against instrumental knowledge-we need it. LP: You wrote in this book that today, the “only knowledge worth having is thought to be instrumental: that which gives you direct leverage on the world.” Given that many people are so overwhelmed by reality that they retreat into digital realms, or binge-watch shows, what’s wrong wit valuing instrumental knowledge? So that’s the main point I think I want to make. I mean, telling is very important to us, as a way of organizing our own lives. So I think it’s important that we distinguish between living and telling. PB: I think that you have to be aware of what story is, how it works on you, how story can degenerate into myth-the myth of a stolen election or American greatness or whatever-in which people come to believe without any awareness that it is a story that had been told to them, and that it’s fiction. Even in as benign an organization as NPR and their Stor圜orps, the notion is story is, in and of itself, self-justifying, beneficent, and something we should all pay attention to. Storytelling has gotten out of hand-you go on any corporate website, and they tell you “Our Story.” What bothers me about that is the notion that “story” explains and justifies everything. I think all the battles about statues, for instance, and the naming of buildings, indicates that the story of who we are is very important to us. Peter Brooks: I believe that there’s been a mindless proliferation of the notion of story and storytelling in our culture. Lenny Picker: What led you to write this book? In his new book, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, he provides a bracing and insightful look at the downsides of reducing everything to storytelling. We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.”Īlmost four decades later, Brooks has a different perspective. ![]() So you can easily copy these designs edit them the way you want maybe changes some colors, icons, fonts or even easily create new covers from the existing ones by duplicating and editing the covers.In 1984, Peter Brooks, now an emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, published Reading for the Plot, in which he argued that “ur lives are ceaselessly intertwined with narrative, with the stories that we tell and hear told, those we dream or imagine or would like to tell, all of which are reworked in that story of our own lives that we narrate to ourselves in an episodic, sometimes semiconscious, but virtually uninterrupted monologue. What I really think you will like is that I’m also sharing the Canva file as a template. So, here comes a new covers pack with a more simplistic and material-ish design. ![]() Though I’m not a professional graphic designer, I do enjoy designing stuff. Last year I published these two posts 20 Notion Covers to make your pages stand out & 30 More Notion Covers for Beautiful Pages and Templates containing downloadable cover images for Notion.so.
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