a guide to the intra-play of 7 plus materialities mapping quantum storytelling

A G U I D E T O T H E I N T R A - P L A Y O F 7 P L U S M A T E R I A L I T I E S

MAPPING QUANTUM STORYTELLING

Presented By: David M. Boje, Ph.D. 2

MAPPING THE ASSEMBLAGES OF HUMAN & NON-HUMAN

Your Clothing

Your ToolsComputers, pencil, pen…

Your FoodInside & carried along

Your cosmeticsMake up, deodorant, sprays…

Each item tells a quantum storyIs part of larger socio-economic assemblage processes

Quantum Storytelling

You

Not of same

Places, or Times, or Pressures,

or Agencies, or Optics

?


STORYTELLING Working

Conditions

STORYTELLING Behaviors

STORYTELLING Hidden Costs

STORYTELLING Structures


SEAM-STORYTELLING

WORKING CONDITIONS

Are assemblages of tools, material resources, changes over place, changes over time, job designs, sociotechnical assemblages, materiality in relation to social groups, processes of material production, distribution, etc.

WORK ORGANIZATION

Are material assemblages of sociomaterial networks, dialogic relations, supply chains, specialties, administrative order, etc.


SEAM-STORYTELLING

3 C’s

Assemblages of human and digital projectors, image screens, asleep students, coordination calendars, meetings face-to-face, meeting virtually, a TAMARA-LAND of simultaneous 3 C’s.

TIME MANAGEMENT

Times different throughout the assemblage, with short, medium and long term horizons, cycles, spirals, rhizome assemblages, some linear ones, delegation, putting out fires, value-added time, value-less time


SEAM-STORYTELLING

TRAINING

Assemblages of people getting training, doing CITI HR and safety certification, people needing trianing not getting it, apprenticeship needed, mentoring happening or not, training in habitudes, untraining ones no longer valued.

STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION

Transforming from one assemblage of processes to another, merging and acquiring, divesting, getting accounting assemblage inline with market and production assemblage, moving to materialize the staregy


ANATOMY OF SEAM-STORYTELLING

STORYTELLING Working

Conditions

STORYTELLING Behaviors

STORYTELLING Hidden Costs

STORYTELLING Structures

SEAM-STORYTELLING

Quantum

Material

SEAM-STORYTELLING

Birth of new Methods


3 times Better than 1

SEAM-STORYTELLING


What’s In SEAM-STORYTELLING?

SociomaterialitySocioeconomic AccountingDistrust of Speculative Economics

What’s Out?Petrified NarrativeLinear NarrativeDe-material Narrative


1ST QUANTUM STORYTELLING EXERCISE

On paper, make a list of every material thing you wear, carry, or bring into this room. Include every item of clothing, jewelry, hair brush/comb, cosmetics, glasses/contacts, perfume, food, tools, computers, chargers, cords, iPhone, ear buds, nail polish, books, papers, notebooks, post-it notes, etc.

After a complete list is written out, join with a partner and interview them about their material accompaniments.

Everyone is a quantum storytelling assemblage!

Presented By: David M. Boje, Ph.D.

STAR ACTOR-NETWORK-THEORY: BRUNO LATOUR

1. Which of your material items are not of same places?

2. Which are not of same times?

3. Which are not of same pressures?

4. Which are not of same agencies?

5. Which are not of same optics? 11

NOT SAME OPTIC

(not synoptic)

NOT SAME PRESSURE

S(not isobaric)

NOT SAME AGENCIES

(not homogeneous)

NOT SAME PLACES

(not isotopic

NOT SAME TIMES

(not synchronic)


DEFINING VITAL MATERIALISM

“Picture an ontological field without any unequivocal demarcations between human, animal, vegetable, and mineral,” Bennett (2010: 117) writes, “all forces and flows (materialities) are or can become lively, affective, and signaling. And so an affective, speaking human body is not radically different from the affective, signaling nonhumans with which it coexists, hosts, enjoys, senses, consumes, produces, and competes”


EXERCISE 2: TELL THE ‘ONTO-STORY’ OF YOUR ASSEMBLAGE OF MATERIAL THINGS

Jane Bennett (2010:3-4) says ‘onto-story’ is a qualitative methodology, tracing the ASSEMBLAGES of human artifacts, the human body (part of Nature), and non-human forces

Each of you assemblages are different! (Boje, 2011; 385).

Trace the onto-story of the various PLACES, TIMES, PRESSURES, AGENCIES, OPTICS of different assemblages you brought into the room.

Each assemblage is part of a larger socioeconomic process. Trace the socio-economic processes of which various artifacts are participants (in larger assemblages).

Define Vibrant Matter of your most lively thing-assemblages (aka ‘material vitalism).


QUANTUM STORYTELLING

Its all about what we use, reuse, care for, or just are careless about.

Its all about our entanglement as material body in larger assemblages of material processes.


SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASSEMBLAGES“Performance is not the result of putting together resources (things);

it’s the result of dynamic historical movement: -Savall in Boje 2011:383)

Boje: “An assemblage is migrative, iterant, in movement whereas a network is ties, connections that recur, that pattern being more stable” (p. 384).

“Agency is not just juman, but the configurative assemblage of materiality has energy --- ‘vibrant energy’ (p. 384).

We do not find an assemblage process, complete, in form, but it is of different places, times, etc.


EXERCISE 3: CAN YOU TELL A STORY WITHOUT YOUR MATERIALITY?

In what ways are you always in relationship to materiality assemblages?

How is all this materiality, the material assemblages, related to your storytelling practices?


WHAT IS OBSERVER EFFECT?


OBSERVER EFFECT?


EXERCISE 4: WHAT ARE OBSERVER EFFECTS OF QUANTUM STORYTELLING?

Quantum storytellers observe the materiality assemblages all around them.

How do you observe your embeddedness in material assemblages?

How does your voice use material waves, your writing is material, your sight uses light waves, your hearing, the sound waves, your smelling uses it, your body sense touch of vibrations, and your gestures move in spacetimemattering?

What effect does you observing your body in space, in time, in mattering, i.e. in spacetimemattering have on you?


EXERCISE 5: WHAT IS QUANTUM STORYTELLING BEYOND THE SENSES

Tell a story with out the wave of voice or sight, the smells, or touches of material, or any material gestures.

Can this be done?

How are you in your body, yet not in your body, only in language?

Is your consciousness separate from the material world?

Are you a social construction?


EXERCISE 6: SUBATOMIC QUANTUM STORYTELLING

Can you exist with out photons of light?

Can you exist without oxygen? How long can you hold your breath?

Can you live in artificial light?

Can we be blind, deaf, mute, and still tell stories?

How does closing your eyes change your mood, in your storytelling?


EXERCISE 7: WHAT KIND OF MATERIAL IS LIGHT?


TAMARA-LAND (BOJE, 1995 AMJ)


EVOLUTIVE INTERACTIVE ACTORS POLYGON (EIAP)

EIAP is Savall’s answer to Latour’s ANT.

EIAP is part of Qualimetric Intervention Research (QIR)

Actors A and B have a meeting at 10:45AM

Both arrive on time

The meeting lasts till 10:55AM

B leaves

11AM Actor C takes a meeting with actor A – what A says to C is not same as said to B

You cannot trace the meaning if you do not understand the dynamic assemblage happening (TAMARA-LAND)

QUANTUM STORYTELLING


TAMARA-LAND POINT

You cannot understand the very different meanings of simultaneous conversations in different rooms, if you have not been a part of the different assemblages.

10:45 to 11:45 is Act One

10:55-11:15 is Act Two

The acts make up a scene, that are part of other scenes.

In a bad play, the props are not appropriate

Organization change, is a change in assemblages, and the props and actors, the acts and scenes matter

Quantum Storytelling


TYPE 7: Liquid Quantum

Materialist Rhetoric

TYPE 1: Representationalist Materialist Rhetoric

(Russian Formalism | Structuralism |

Linguistics TYPE 2: Marxist Historical Materialist

RhetoricTYPE 6: Bakhtinian Dialogical Materialist

Rhetoric

TYPE 3: Foucauldian Postmodernist

Fragmented Materialist Rhetoric

TYPE 5: Postmodern Althusserian Aleatory Materialist Rhetoric

TYPE 4: Barad/Strand Constitutive

Materialist Rhetroic (Bohr)

a guide to the intra-play of 7 plus materialities mapping quantum storytelling

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