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Closely Related Literary Kinds...
I just finished reading Philippe Petit's book, "Man on Wire" This text chronicles Petit's multiyear long project to perform a high wire walk across the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. There is a significant amount of autiobiographical information, including Petit's childhood passion for horseback riding. Interspersed throughout the text are black and white images of Petit, his accomplices, and the Twin Towers. Some are photographs, others are sketches and notes in
World Literature and Neurobiology
The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature." The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions exploring the common usefulness in a wide array of contexts, academic and otherwise, of emergent and evolving systems ideas. The conversation documented below is archived from a discussion on the Rethinking World Literature Facebook site and will be added to as that discussion continues. A second discussion archive on "From Evolving Systems to World Literature and Back Again" is available here.