We continue to do fund raising with our plays, and with CrowdSource at GoFundMe.com/mol1wc to cover costs of each next play, and setting up or 501 (c) 3 called "Veterans Theater Foundation" Veterans Theater is one of its four main programs. Thank you for your continuing support.
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What is the Music of Storytelling in Denmark?Today June 3 2016, Peter Bastian, Denmark’s beloved musician, composer, and author and I, a storytelling theorists, will do a session at Copenhagen Business School on the the relation of Music and Storytelling. Peter will have his own answers, here I will blog to sort out my own. Anders Kryger, from CBS and MAN Diesel and Turbo, will moderate and ask us each questions. I will give examples from Diesel House and Ragnarök Rock Musi Museum to illustrate the relation of Music and Storytelling.
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Hawk's Spirit at NMSU and its role in Dialectical Storytelling
May 29 2016
Is Hegel and Peirce Triadic a Multifractal?
May 25 2016
Dialectical Storytelling Science in a Multifractal World
May 24 2016
Storytelling Science is Possible in Higher Education [?]
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Answers to Antenarrative Questions at Copenhagen Business School
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NMSU's Swainson's Hawk and the Sixth Extinction
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EARLY CHRISTMAS, a FREE play presented 7PM Dec. 2nd at Rio Grande Theater, Las Cruces, New Mexico - blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Oct 2 2015
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Welcome SpiceHeads to SpiceWorld 2015 and the SpiceEpidemic! - blog post by David M. Boje, Oct 1st, 2015
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Are our values fractal generators or do our embodied fractals create our values as they unfold??? …The answer is YES! -By Tonya L. Henderson
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So Now We Get Some Answers
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WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS? Blog pos by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 20 2015
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Shelters, Missions, HUD, and Prisons can not Cope with Growth Postindustrial Spin Off of the Homeless Population – Blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 16 2015
Shelters, Missions, HUD, and Prisons can not Cope with Growth Postindustrial Spin Off of the Homeless Population – Blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 16 2015
Fractals are everywhere, so common we do not notice the man-made ones
Los Angles City is Against Tiny Homes on Wheels for Homeless
One of our very own TENT CITY SOLUTIONS http://tentcitysolutions.co is to build or purchase TINY HOMES, go OFF THE GRID, and make them part of what we are calling LEGACY RANCH, a place for veterans and their families to decompress after a combat tour. But this ranch can also be a treat for homeless, a break from the shelters, missions, and a stopping point for the nomadic homeless who would never stay at shelters or missions.
Man builds tiny homes on wheels for Los Angeles’ homeless …
1:09Man builds tiny homes on wheels for Los Angeles’ homeless … Summers is on a mission to build tiny …
Why I don’t donate canned goods and bottled water to the poor and homeless? – blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 14 2015
Why I don’t donate canned goods and bottled water to the poor and homeless?
Boje in Philadelphia giving sc’MOI keynote
Why I feel answerable to help homeless veterans, and homeless?
I come from an addicted family. Its in our genes. This is one of the few times we had gotten together since the welfare days in Washington State, growing up poor, dependent on the State. I know what it is to be in junior and high school dirt poor. I know what its like to watch your brothers and sisters cope with survival.
I want to make a point. Why it is that many shelters, missions, centers for homeless veterans ‘care’ can not help become top-down bureaucratic management, outright total institutions. Erving Goffman’s (1961, Asylums) definition of the Total Institution, has much in common with Homeless Veterans ‘Shelters’ around the world. As we establish Veterans Theater, and do something called ‘making room for veterans stories’ it is important that we go bottom-up and change the nature of total institutions.
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do: Veterans Theater is Giving Back to the Homeless Community
Veterans Theater has been raising money by putting on plays with stories created and act out by veterans and homeless in transition
August 31, 2015 two board members of ANTENARRATIVE FOUNDATION and members of its VETERANS THEATER program, are seen here donating charcoal, extension cords, clothes lines, and charcoal starter to a Day Shelter, somewhere in the Southwestern United States.
Celebrating 25 Years of Storytelling25th Annual Meetingsc’MOI 2016April 14th – 16thWyndham Independence MallPhiladelphia, PASc’moi stands for ‘Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry.’ It is about to die after 25 years of being a lively community of scholars
Mapping Quantum Storytelling of Corporate Care
Please construct a ‘map’ of Quantum Storytelling of Corporate Care. This is mine. You can also use construction paper, magazines, scissors, and a glue stick to do this, then make it digital, and send it in a reply. Thank you.
Care is about the most primordial decision you can make. Mapping Quantum Storytelling is fundamentally about ‘care.’ Mapping something groundless, is disclosing something but it is not ‘care’.
Closing assertion.
PART IV Mapping Quantum Storytelling with Care at the Deepest Ground – Blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 19 2015
Mapping Quantum Storytelling with Care at the Deepest Ground
This is 6 of 11 D’s that I have been working out as an ontological approach To Quantum Storytelling
More on the 11 D’s in Quantum Spiral Book on line, or see Boje (2014, Storytelling Organizational Practices, Routledge).
The Scandal of Mapping Quantum Storytelling
I want to thank the people such as Professor Corey Anton (author of some very informative YouTubes on ontology, as well as his book Authenticity and Selfhood, 2001) for his posting on ‘dreams’ and ‘ontology’ on this blog, and colleague Wilfred Berendsen, who asks me to get into my understanding of the socioeconomic context of Mapping Quantum Storytelling.
The mapping scandal I want to discuss is how many cities are not on some official maps used by the State officials of New Mexico. 
“An October report by the National Coalition for the Homeless found that since January of 2013, 22 cities have successfully passed restrictions on food-sharing
PART III of Quantum Storytelling: Do Corporations have an Authentic Heart-of-Care? Blog David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 27 2015Let’s ask the Quantum Storytelling Question: Do Corporations have an Authentic Heart-of-Care?
The short answer, Corporation’s Heart-of-Caring begins already in willing, wishing, urging, and becomes leveled to an addiction to concern, an inauthentic takes root, and roots up the authentic Heart-of-Care.
The above Mapping of Quantum Storytelling of Corporate-Care, as a Spiral-Antenarrative. Is it possible to ascend, to recover fore-care?
It’s happening, the Quantum Storytelling Conference, December 17-19 in Los Angeles.
PART I: Becoming of Care by facing your ownmost inauthentic self, then making space for authentic-Self — Blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 25, 2015
As always Zizek gets to the heart of the matter.
Click Here to watch Zizek YouTube about Homeless, Charity, Realtors, and Private Property. To be homeless, in the Eastwest Realtors of the game played by the Rich is not the solution to homelessness. Nor is the CHARITY that degrades and demoralizes the homeless. Zizek adds “It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that rest from the institution of private property.”
The Becoming of fore-care, its authentic disclosedness, discoveredness, interpretation, understanding, assertion, and even its anxiety is a way of attunement-antenarrative of Being-in-the-world, in-storytelling. It is the working out of the struggle of the inauthentic-self with the authentic-Self, discovering the difference, and “an authentic potentiality-for-Being-its-Self” (Heidegger, 1962: #184).The Rorty calls the mirror-self on the mirror stage.
Here is a drawing of several antenarrative attunements with the Falling-Antenarrative, depicted as a downward plunge into the sham of authenticity and the “groundlessness of the inauthentic Being of the ‘they'” all those societal stigmas, stereotypes, prejudices, of people who accept the public media representations of the homeless veteran, the veteran, and the homeless ((Heidegger, 1962: # 179).
Idle Talk-Antenarrative is what’s going on between Disneyland and Dismaland, Inspired Banksy’s Disneyland Theme Park
Finally, someone really gets my critique of Disneyland, for its Dismal Side of Storytelling, what I call Tamara-land (Boje, 1991).
TAMARA-LAND: The Story You Follow From Room to Room
I ask the question: “What are the collective and historical dynamics of the storytelling organization, viewed as a Tamara, as it writes its story onto the employees and the public?” (Boje, 1991: 998). The answer is something called Idle Talk, and antenarrative of the BETWEEN.
Can Capitalism Survive Homelessness? Blog post by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 20 2015
Joseph Schumpeter asked, “Can Capitalism Survived” and responded a resounding “No!”
My great grandparents grew up on a depression, my grandparents grew up in another depression, and my parents in yet another one. So I have to ask if we are in yet another depression? And if so, is homelessness, once again the result of depression?
Can Capitalism Survive Homelessness?
The homelessness statistics are everywhere: “averages, rations, means, modes, medians” not too many with “tests of significance” (Gephart, 1988: 5). Statistics are part of the everyday-ness of homelessness discourse, what we hear at City Council, and meetings of the Homeless Coalition of New Mexico, and all throughout the world of Global Capitalism. These statistics have the weight to bury us (IBID.). There is a proliferation of homelessness statistics, and they have weight in federal and city policy, in how social welfare agencies, the Veterans Administration, and the American Legion address problems.
The Antenarrative-Assertion of Albrqueuque’s Rocks-for-the-Homeless – Blog Aug 19 2-14 David M. Boje, Ph.D.
There are cities such as Albrqueuque where a homeless dog gets better care than a homeless human. This blog is what I call an antenarrative-assertion. I will explain the three steps of its Interpretation method, then contrast it with Grounded Theory (which in my view is not really grounded at all in the Situation of Being). Finally, we will look at the facts, the Situation in Albrqueuque, and end with some TentCitySolutions.co.
Every antenarrative-assertion has three moments of Interpretation to perform (Heidegger, 1962: #154-155):
- A “pointing-out”, E.G. “The hammer is to heavy” but it is nevertheless “ready-to-hand” and not some narrative “representation” (IBID.).
- A “predication” but not a predicate put forward, but rather “the hammer itself”, “what it is”, its definite character restricted to some view “too heavy” (IBID.).
- A communication “speaking forth” letting someone share this existential, passing it along for “further retelling” in the kind of knowing of “hearsay” (IBID.).
Instead of “this hammer is too heavy” what if we have an assertion, “The sleeping is too rough!”
Step 1 of our Interpretation: Let’s do an antenarrative-assertion, first ‘pointing-out’ some things. For example pointing-out homeless tents in Albrqueuque.
Pointing Out — Homeless in their tents between highway and railway.
PTSD, Horses, and Antenarrative – blog entry by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 18 2015
PTSD, Horses, and Antenarrative
I believe my life after Vietnam Army service (1969-1970) would have changed for the better more quickly if horse-assisted care was available in 1970. , I find that I am coming to understand the meaning of PTSD, how I once escaped into alcohol, still escape into TV movies, and my incessant workaholism. I once went to a counselor, for a single session, and took the notorious Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the most widely used and researched standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology. I
Silverado, Lucky Boy, Horse Manure, and Care of PTSD August 17 2015 – David M. Boje, Vietnam Veteran
Silverado, Lucky Boy, Horse Manure, and Care of PTSD
David M. Boje, Vietnam veteran riding his horse, Silverado
I David Boje am a Vietnam Veteran of the 1969-1970 War.There is something about the relationship of ‘care’ between a veteran and a horse, that is healing of old wounds.
What is the Mattering of Homeless Being-in-the-world? David M. Boje Aug 16 2015
What is Mattering?
For the homeless and the care-givers, what ‘matters’ is the ‘mattering’ of ‘care’ and ‘concern.’ This is inseparable from the spatiality of care, and the temporality of care, the these together in spacetimemattering.
Now the question, is what is ‘spacetimemattering’ and how do various sociomateriality theorists approach it differently. Here I will explore the antenarrative encounters that can ‘matter’ to it, grounded in an already disclosed world-as something spacetimemattering, ontologically, and for Heidegger such a mood is underlying the ontical, and is interactive with it. We shall contrast his focus on the interplay of ontologic-ontico with the agential realism of Barad.
What is our ANSWERABILITY to all the Homeless? by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Aug 15 2015
This is my own autoethnography, my reflections on my encounters in the worldhood of homelessness. Above is a news clipping (p. 8 of Sun-News, on August 5th, the day after the Veterans Theater troop put on the play
Antenarratives of Social Welfare and its Solicitudes of Indifference in New Mexico – Aug 13 David Boje
In the social welfare agencies I have been participating with, I am encountering a strange antenarrative which (Heidegger, 1962: #122) calls positive, yet deficient solicitude. Solicitude has two positive extreme modes.
- TYPE ONE SOLICITUDE: A solicitude that takes away ‘care’ from the homeless, because their care “it can leap in for him” and disempower (IBID.). This kind of antenarrative Being-in-the-world, takes over for the homeless, and the homeless are thrown out of their own position of care. I have observed this form of domination “dominated and dependent, even if this domination is a tacit one and remains hidden from him” (the homeless and and the welfare agency staff or cadre) (IBID.). It is rather obvious in the weekly meeting of homeless, staff (including cadre who were once homeless and now paid by the agency), volunteers, and sometimes donors. There are encounters in the dialogue that take away care from the homeless, and do for them, and to them, and on behalf of them. An example is Indifference to long wait times in a social welfare agency, such as the VA, a topic of our first Veterans Theater play.
- TYPE TWO SOLICITUDE: Another kind of solicitude that will “leap ahead of him” not the “take-away ‘his’ care” as in type one, but authentically get care back to the homeless, “fore the first time” (IBID.). Rather, care is freed up, from TYPE ONE, inventory of Things or Equipment (tents, bedding, clothing, food, etc.). The leap ahead in TYPE TWO is towards a potentiality-for-Being, give back care, not a what of homeless, but rather to affirm Being free to care for one’s own freedom for him or herself.
Concern for the homeless (solicitude) has many kinds, and the TYPE ONE and TYPE TWO kinds are ready-to-hand in the weekly gatherings, in many encounters between Homeless and Social Welfare Agencies, volunteers, donors, and so on.
STORYTELLING HOMELESSNESS
ANTENARRATIVE PATHWAY from HOMELESS to HOMED Aug 11 2015 8AM – David M. Boje
The ‘Antenarrative’-pathway from HOMELESS to HOMED –>Above homeless in London are SPIKED to keep sleeping rough, in Las Cruces New Mexico there are tents but ‘Oh so cold in winter’ and in tent 130 degrees in summer sun, so why not build ‘Tiny Homes’ and get our homeless veterans Homed in economic sustainability, on wheels, to meet all the codes, in Nature, to decompress from SPIKE and Tent Life?
Spatiality of Antenarrative is not in calculated quantitative measured, Rather its in the ANTES, the bets on the future
The spatiality of antenarrative “Being in space” (Heidegger, 1962: #105). This antenarrative spatiality is not “Being-present-at-hand”, not position in Euclidean space, but rather antenarrative encountered with the Storytelling world in “characters of de-severance and directionality” (IBID.).
BLOG POST ANTENARRATIVE Defined Ontico-Ontological Between-ness Thursday August 6 2015
WHAT IS ANTENARRATIVE?
Antenarrative becomes accessible by its attributes: fragmented, non-linear, collective incoherence that is pre-narrative, beneath the entities dominant narrative and living stories, the between these entities, speculative bets on the future, the becoming of fore-care. In short, antenarrative is constitutive of the totality of storytelling, including its entities, narrative and living story.
These attributes (fragmented, collective, nonlinear, incoherence, pre-narrative, speculative bet…) are defining characteristics of antenarrative, the entity we are talking about. Antenarrative must already ‘Be’ before any other ways of storytelling substantiality (especially narrative and living story) that makes up ‘storytelling’ existence. But these entities (narrative-antenarrative-living stories) do not make up the ‘real’ Being of storytelling, but rather the velocity and volatility of antenarrative which makes narrative-petrification and living story web entities constitute-able. The quantum velocity of antenarrative makes petrified-narrative impossible, and structural networks of living story webs impossible, the volatility forfeits corporeal Being (Heidegger, 1962: #91).
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Stop the Spice Trade: A Veterans Theater Live Street Performance and Intervention - blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 12 2015
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What is Storytelling Relational Processes of Veterans Situation in the USA? Blog post by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 9 2015
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What is Storytelling Relational Processes of Veterans Situation in the USA?
Storytelling is the total of all involvements in the spacetimemattering of a context, in this post, the veterans of the USA. Here we focused on the system of health care veterans receive and the storytelling relational process that constitutes the ‘meaning of care’ for veterans Being-in-VA-Health-care.
According to the report ‘Fixing Veterans Health Care” from Converned Veterans for America, (http://taskforce.cv4a.org/):
El Paso has longest wait for VA mental health appointments in U.S.
Staff shortages key cause of long waits, VA says
How does Wealth of War Corporations and the Super-rich relate to Madness, Homelessness, to Veterans Issues? – Blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 7 2015
How does Wealth of War Corporations and the Super-rich relate to Madness, Homelessness, to Veterans Issues?
The super-wealthy live alongside homelessness. The War Corporations need humans to become ‘Mad Warriors’ and to supply them with equipment. The War Corporations feed on madness and produce madness.
“There is no madness but that which is in every man, since it is men who constitute madness in the attachment he bears for himself and by the illusions he entertains” (Michel Foucault, 1980, Madness and Civilization, p. 26).
There is madness across the USA. “In Silicon Valley, abundant wealth commonly lives alongside absolute squalor. The same county that houses Yahoo!, Google, and scores of other digital money mines is mired in a costly ongoing failure to address rampant homelessness” (ThinkProgress).
Source – These Corporations are Profiteers from the Unending Wars
Madness, Veterans, Homeless, and Institutions of Care for the Mad Warriors – blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 5 2015
Madness, Veterans, Homeless, and Institutions of Care for the Mad Warriors
Poverty and madness are necessary to wealth. Why else would almost half the 7.3 billion people on this planet make less than $2 a day? Poverty is necessary to wealth, but how is madness related?
Being overwhelmed in a fight, the madman gets in touch with animality, like the mythic Wolverine, Hulk, and of course, Thor. Thor, the Asgardian God of Thunder, son of Odin and the Elder Earth-Goddess Gaea. Thor, armed with his enchanted hammer (Mjolnir) is arguably the greatest and mightiest mad warrior. Or get the Marvel Titan Hero Series 6 Pack with Armored Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Wolverine (Marvel 6 Pack).
How Veterans Theater is Emerging by Anticipations – blog by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Sep 4th 2015ere
How Veterans Theater is Emerging by Anticipations – by David M. Boje, Ph.D.
The overall objective is for Veterans Theater to publicize basic knowledge on homelessness, and other concerning issues among veterans
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This Blog is for Veterans and homeless. We work with storytelling to get at the antenarratives. Antenarrative is not anti-narrative. Antenarrative is defined as ‘the fragmented, non-linear, incoherent, collective, unplotted, and pre-narrative speculation, a bet, a proper narrative can be constituted’ (Boje, 2001: 1).
The homeless and veterans storytelling is constituted by antenarratives: fragmented lives, non-linear tales, incoherent accounts, collective ways of telling, unplotted futures, lots of pre-narratives, and a good deal of speculative bets on the future. — David Boje, Ph.D. Vietnam Veteran and play director of veterans theater
Veterans and Theater (http://veteranstheater.com ) is the first program of Antenarrative Foundation. This is education and outreach by the veterans and/or homeless to the community, using theater skits to showcase the ‘Living Story Web’ of veterans and/or homeless own lived experience here and now, in relation to ‘Dominant Narratives’ (& counternarratives) that stereotype or stigmatize them, along with the ‘Antenarrative processes’ that connect them.
References
Boje, D. M. (1991). “Organizations as Storytelling Networks: A Study of Story Performance in an Office-Supply Firm,”Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 36: 106-126.*http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/Boje_Storytelling_ASQ_1991.pdf
Boje, D. M. (1995). “Stories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as ‘Tamara-land.'” Academy of Management Journal. 38(4): 997-1035.*http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/DisneyTamaraland.html or print out the PDF version
Boje, D. M. (2008). Storytelling Organizations. London/CA: Sage.
Boje, D. M. and Henderson, Tonya. (2014). Being Quantum: Ontological Storytelling in the Age of Antenarrative.
Being Quantum: Ontological Storytelling in the Age of Antenarrative
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Available from Routledge May 2014; SeeReviews; See Book Signing Flyer
Pondy, L. & Boje, D.M. 1980.”Bringing Mind Back In: Paradigm Development as a Frontier Problem in Organizational Theory,” pp. 83-101, in Frontiers in Organization & Management, Williams Evan (Ed.), Praeger Publishers: New York.
References
Anton, C. (2001). Selfhood and Authenticity. SUNY Press.
Organizational Development and Change Theory: Managing Fractal Organizing Processes Available August 1st 2015
by Tonya Henderson (Author),David M. Boje (Author)
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