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Cosmonarrative and the Narrative Cosmos: Visual Narrative in Material-based Image

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Visual narrative is an evolving interdisciplinarity that confronts the entanglement of narrative and visuality. The phenomenon of objective concretization (Simondon 2010) is increasingly apparent in both narrative and image domains. This deepening partitioning is self-limiting for interpreting the complexity of visual narrative among contemporary visual media and beyond. Cosmonarrative proposed is a theoretic framework for reinterpreting visual narrative in the realm of the material-based image by following Hui’s (2019) cosmotechnics which acknowledges relativity, diversity and locality in the view of post-universality.

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Chen, Z. (2022). Cosmonarrative and the Narrative Cosmos: Visual Narrative in Material-based Image. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Business, Communication, Health, Well-being, and Inclusiveness. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06050-2_8

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