Project C: Darmok by MJ Young https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw Depicting the communication solutions in Star Trek. en-us 2021-05-26 21:47:42 UTC 2023-06-11 04:26:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Picard: "That’s how you communicate, isn’t it? By citing example, by metaphor!" myoun092 https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563065636 Picard reaches eureka (25:58). He has been spending time with Dathon. Further along it helps his understanding.]]> 2021-05-26 21:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563065636 TROI: "The Tamarian ego structure does not seem to allow what we normally think of as self-identity. Their ability to abstract is highly unusual. They seem to communicate through narrative imagery—by reference to the individuals and places which appear in their mytho-historical accounts." myoun092 https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563071141 Bogost summarizes in his article the issue the team faces. Without knowing their myths and history they will not comprehend the point they want to depict. It's stated in metaphors and imagery only someone from their species could comprehend/ decode.]]> 2021-05-26 22:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563071141 Metaphor or Image? myoun092 https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563093662 "But there’s a problem: Metaphor and image are not accurate descriptions of the Tamarian language’s logic. A metaphor takes one thing as a symbol for something else: Juliet’s balcony acts as a figure for romance, Darmok and Jalad as a figure for communion through shared struggle. Even though Troi means “image” as a synonym for metaphor when she says “Image is everything for the Tamarians,” she also implies vanity in Tamarian speech. From the perspective of her declarative speech, the Tamarians are putting on pretenses, covering over a fundamental thing with a decorative one."  -Bogost]]> 2021-05-26 22:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563093662 The Final Issue myoun092 https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563107944 "Allegory might have been a better term for explaining Tamarian. While metaphor represents one subject as similar to another object, allegory replaces one with another entirely. Allegory’s veiled language is powerful, because allegories effectively freeze time, making a historical or fictional scenario immortal. Allegory is what makes it possible for us to continue to derive lessons from the Old and New Testaments, week after week, homily after homily." -Bogost

"But the Tamarians’ version of allegory, if that’s indeed the right name for it, cuts both ways. On the one hand, it fetishizes myth in the manner of allegory, but on the other hand it musters that myth in the interest of serious sociopolitical action, as evidenced by Dathon’s willingness literally to die in the name of myth. " -Bogost]]> 2021-05-26 22:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/myoun092/lk2kwvwlps23hgbw/wish/1563107944