Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems

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f i g u r e s a n d t a b l e s Figure 1.1. Systems Distinctions, from Social Systems 17 Figure 1.2. Systems Distinctions, from ‘‘The Autopoiesis of Social Systems’’ 18 Figure 1.3. Autopoiesis of Biotic and Metabiotic Systems 18 Figure 1.4. Autopoietic and Non-Autopoietic Systems 19 Table 1.1. Social and Narrative Communication 23 Table 1.2. Posthumanist Narratology 31 Figure 3.1. The Form 67 Figure 3.2. The Form of Condensation 68 Figure 3.3. The Form of Cancellation 68 Figure 3.4. Second-Order Form 69 Figure 3.5. Albrecht Dürer, from Unterweysung der Messung, Nuremberg, 1538 69 Figure 3.6. The Human/Fairy Distinction 74 Figure 3.7. The Theater as Second-Order Observation 75 Figure 3.8. The Freytag Triangle and the Bremond Cycle 79 Figure 3.9. The Intradiegetic Status of the Character-bound Narrator 81 Figure 3.10. The Character-bound Narrative Situation in Form Notation 82 Figure 3.11. The Extradiegetic Status of the Authorial Narrator 82 Figure 3.12. The Authorial Narrative Situation in Form Notation 83 Figure 3.13. The Figural Narrative Situation 85 Figure 3.14. The Figural Narrative Situation in Form Notation 85 vii viii Figures and Tables Figure 3.15. Form Calculation of the Figural Narrative Situation 86 Table 5.1. Transportation and Transmission 128 Table 5.2. Transmission and Communication 129 Figure 5.1. Information and Noise 130 ...