Branched Narrative: From Technical Device to the Art of Modeling the Future
The Image of the Future in Culture
Abstract. Branched narrative is often reduced to a technical fork in the plot. This chapter reframes branching as a cultural technique and an art of modeling possible futures — not only a software pattern. Tracing the path from early branching devices to contemporary audiovisual practice, the author argues that multi-path storytelling participates in how culture imagines contingency, choice, and the image of the future.
Abstract. Branched narrative is often reduced to a technical fork in the plot. This chapter reframes it as an art of modeling futures — a cultural technique as much as a software pattern.
Published in the collective volume The Image of the Future in Culture (ISBN 978-9934-26-591-4).
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