Form as ethics: how to tell these tales If “tales II” is to be more than a cosmetic reprise, form must carry ethics. Form—narrative perspective, pacing, focalization—affects empathy. A story told from the vantage of an animal or a pastry-maker, from the puppydog’s sensory world, or from the cleaner who sweeps the zoo’s paths, alters the moral topology. Showing the backstage labor of cupcake production, or the breeding histories behind a puppydog, or the conservation stories of zoo inhabitants, converts aesthetic objects into witnesses. A second tale might therefore adopt polyphony: multiple points of view that resist the flattening single voice of voyeuristic consumption. It could exploit mise-en-scène to make viewers share in the labor of seeing, not merely take pleasure from spectacle.
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