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The purpose of this blog is to share material, and administrative details, pertaining to the glorious eternal magazine of truth currently known as Aftermath. It is also available for random noises, streams of barely consciousness, and other horrifying and disturbing literary events. I do not intend to share these noises with the public.
Allow me then to share my first animal noises:
Today I wanted to explore how to balance features in this highly informing magazine of the future public. In this regard I started to think about how to balance articles (is this the correct word for all thing fiction and non?).
The first thing that came to mind is the binary of the pre-apocalyptic(and currently apocalyptic)/and the post-apocalyptic. This is a pretty significant binary in the sense that one is filled with tension and worry while the other could have some element of relief and/or deflation. I think it would be a good reading experience to encounter articles this way..tension release tension release etc. Not specifically in that order but you get the idea.
This got me to thinking of other binaries that I would like to be aware of.
literal to genre / vs. interpretive of genre
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actual post-apocalyptica/ The Great Depression; The fall of the Roman empire; personal loss
depressing / vs. hopeful
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survivalistic; destructive/ rebuilding; improving society; independence
realistic/ vs. surrealistic
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realities; speculative realism/ vs. hyperbole; absurdism; meta
I know we have been talking about deconstructionism a lot more than normal, lately but binaries are useful. In fact I'd venture to say that deconstructionism and structuralism are a binary in of themselves.
The usefulness of this type of binary awareness is that it can be used to balance articles within an issue, and balance issues with each other.
Can anyone think of any other binaries?
