Together with Arabist scholars Johannes Stephan and Beatrice Gruendler, Simon Godart has curated a special issue of the new online journal ARTICULATIONS, hosted by EXC 2020 „Temporal Communities,“ titled „Framing Narratives: Toward a Reconceptualisation of Textual Framing beyond Literary Modernity.“ This collection offers theoretical reflections on the relationship between framing and the framed, and on narrative structures of embedding, focusing on texts that lie outside the canon of Western literary modernity. In his own contribution, „Mundus est fabula,“ Godart revisits Descartes‘ Discours de la méthode, exploring Jean-Luc Nancy’s interpretation to reveal how the parergon of Descartes‘ text shapes itself as „a story or, if you prefer, a fable“—a notion that has significant consequences for the method the text aims to establish.