"[W]e’re all losing the ability to engage in what I view as the pinnacle of human interaction: sitting around with friends and talking shit. [...] In an age of shortened attention spans, to go through hours of anything together with someone else is so unusual that it can throw our brains into a kind of joyful crisis state."

Another reason why we need in-person conferences: the kind of shared mental environment in which new patterns of knowing can emerge... I have been delighted to respond to e-mail messages from old friends who heard my zoomed paper at the #NarrativeConference last week, but at the same time I lack the thought-buzz I would have gained from all the new people I now did not get to hang out with.

#intersubjectivity #HangingOut #cognition

https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/hanging-out-sheila-liming-book-friendship-crisis.html

I am happy to have found @fpianz, @janhorstmann, @gumarten and @DrJenHo, but are more people here doing #narratology?

#ISSN #NarrativeConference #NarrativeMatters #narrative #LiteraryStudies #kertomus #kirjamastodon @litstudies @bookstodon

https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/

I am happy to have found @gumarten and @DrJenHo, but anyone else here doing narratology?

#ISSN #NarrativeConference @litstudies