Anti-narrativism

Finally, I found someone to reflect back to me my irritation with the tendency towards narrative forms for all communications:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/chatting-with-heretics/8506166

which features Dr Maria Tumarkin, from Melbourne Uni, who questions the syllogism that I am human so I need to tell stories, therefore because I tell stories it makes me human. She makes the case for stories being able to erode the sensitivity to political situations through the pap of modern person-based story telling as a stand in for analysis and facts. She warns of the reductivism of personal narrative in obscuring the big picture.

I've been a long term fan/adherent of post-(modernism | structuralism), but its obsession with narrative has equally long been irritating to me. Thanks Maria!

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