Hypertext Montage - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious
Highlights
When we talk together, we flatten our N-dimensional thoughts into 1D linear narratives, in order to fit them through the 1D bottleneck of words. ⤴️
Closure! Kuleshov’s insight—pieces can be combined in more than one way to generate multiple meanings, through provoking closure. ⤴️
Insights form from closure, the process of “completing the picture.” If text is given all its context, great, that is amazing understanding. However, with less context, we can put pieces together and let it combine into a bigger picture.