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Malmö University, Sweden Keynote Address by Boje and Rosile May 23 2022 - Click for Slides

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Malmo University, Sweden

What is the Riddle of Participative Thinking in Bakhtin’s Architectonic Dialogism?  May 16, 18, & 19, 2022 Slide set 

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May 18 Part II: Working with Ann Starbæk Bager

May 19 Part III: Working with Anete Mikkala Camille Strand

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Presentation of Bakhtin's Architectonics to The Enthinkment Circle https://enthinkment.com  May 10th, 2022 Slide set

 

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Malmö University Cohort Mar 7, 2022: 2 Events

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Slides for Collaborative Storytelling Conversations by David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile

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Slides for Enthinkment and Collaborative Future Making

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Boje's Slides for the seminar What is the 'storytelling science' of Abilene's Water -- talk given April 18 2019 at McMurry University

Asking Multinational Corporate Personhood to Give a Moral Account of their Antenarrative-Answerability for the Decline of the American Empire

David M. Boje
Updated April 25, 2019

ABSTRACT
Antenarrative asks five existential questions: what came before, what is beneath, what is between, what is becoming of care, and what future is arriving? There is an antenarrative-answerability we must now ask of 'business storytelling' and its fake storytelling. We are like the crew of the Titanic, rearranging the deck chairs and business is playing all the familiar story-tunes as the ship sinks. USA struck its iceberg in the 1970s when Big plastic coalesced with Big sugar and Big Salt to corrupt the diet of Americans and take its 'High Fructose Corn Syrup' (HFCS) global.  This is a story of a failure of moral answerability of multinational food and beverage, plastic and pharmaceutical corporations putting their greed and growth ahead of scientific 'good sense.' Plastic has entered the water cycle in form of BPA and its substitutes BPS and BPF are equally toxic, some of it worse. Fresh safe drinking water and sanitation getting so scarce, 6,000 children die every day of water-borne diseases that are entirely preventable with modern science. We are approaching a situation of 4 billion people living in water scarcity, going without clean fresh, drinkable tap water, while the bottled soda, and bottled water industry, and the water wars between nations continues to escalate.

It is time for multinational water corporations to give a moral account of oneself. I agree with Judith Butler that this is a relational ontology question of moral accountability, and I would add it is an older querie, what Mikhail Bakhtin (1993:3) writing in the 1920s, first identified as the difference between bystander (or special) answerability to watch and do nothing as 6,000 children a day die, and the 'moral answerability' of multinational water corporations to take action, by deeds intervening, in what Bakhtin calls the once-occurrent eventness of Being.  Coca-Cola (2017) claims that it does meet moral accountability, and pprovides a 'story map' of how bottlers are putting back more water than is used in bottling soda, vitamin water, and bottled water. It is a bold claim of socially responsible water capitalism, but is it 'true storytelling' (Boje, Larsen, & Bruun, 2017)? If it is not 'true storytelling' how do we as storytelling researchers use 'self-correcting storytelling methods' to make it 'true storytelling' instead of marketing hype?

        The claims are fantastic, and bold corporate social responsibility of their personhood, but if they are exaggerations, distortions, half-truths, then we must ask Coca-Cola to give a moral account of oneself, because corporations have been declared a legal person, separate and distinct form their shareholders, and as of 2010 the personhood of the corporation can even give PAC money to elect candidates, without any moral acccount of corporate personhood. 
        Quantum storytelling is intercellular, inter-bodies, and intra-cosmos, but can it save all life as we know it from the global water crisis, whirling our way, as early as 2030? The 4th matter-state of water, this proto-water and ortho-water that populates the cosmos are more than social constructivism, with a death grip on the linguistic turn. This quantum storytelling is about quantum-sociomateriality, and always about protecting fresh water so life of not just humans, but animals, fish, plants, and biotic life can exist. Earth has 97.5% salt water, and of the 2.5% remainder of fresh drinkable water, most is inaccessible in snow caps or deep underground, leaving about 2% or so to divvy up among all living things requiring fresh water to survive as a species. It is specisism to claim only human beings have the right to exist, and I prefer a posthumanist sociomaterialism standpoint (Barad, 2007) on water=life, water=ethics. If 6,000 children die, here-and-now daily, and if 60% of marine life is already gone in recent decades, and if global warming is actually not just a debate, but a fact of life on planet earth, then it is time to be giving a moral account of one's corporate personhood.