Posts Tagged ‘metaphor’
Is life a battle?
The famous essayist Susan Sontag thoughtfully criticized militaristic metaphors for illnesses and medical science. Yet our participant draft texts this month both made compelling cases—in very different ways—that science maybe does involve fighting. Is battle an appropriate metaphorical framework when communicating about science? Morphogens fight it out The first text we workshopped, about how morphogens…
Read MoreOn using metaphors and irony—carefully
The metaphor of modern medicine as a tower anchored a draft piece of fiction that we workshopped this month. In the story another tower appeared through the mist, too: alternative medicine. This text used concrete visual drama to take an idea and, as the screenwriting teacher Robert McKee puts it, wrap that idea in an…
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