We have the same
water that we had at GENESIS or for Atheists BIG BANG, 3-4.5
billion years ago. Water recirculates
in the closed loop water cycle between surface water, ground
water, evaporation to atmosphere, precipitation, etc. Our bodies are 55%
to 75% water, we get from the
water cycle. Our bodies are 37.2 trillion living cells, that are
mostly composed of water .
We exist in ensembles of
multiplicities, and there is actual water in soda bottles and
water bottles, but there is giving an account of all the 'virtual
water' that multiplicity, which has one foot in the 'real' and the
other foot in the 'virtual.' It take about 1 bottle of 'real'
water to make a bottle of bottled water, but it also takes three
more bottles of 'virtual water' in the supply and distribution
chain, and in the 17 million barrels of oil it takes of USA to
consume 50 billion bottles of bottled water this year.
"The virtual object is a partial object — not simply because it lacks a part which remains in the real, but in itself and for itself because it is cleaved or doubled into two virtual parts, one of which is always missing form the other” (Deleuze, 1994: 100).
“For a potential or virtual object, to be actualized is to create divergent lines which correspond to — without resembling — a virtual multiplicity. The virtual process the reality of a task to be performed or a problem to be solved” (Deleuze, 1994: 212).
“… The relation between that virtual and the actual as modeled on the relation of the possible and there real. The relation between the virtual and the actual is, however, very different. … The real is the mirror of the possible…. By contrast, the virtual dow not lack reality, it is part of the real” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 242).
Political ambivalence stems
from pure affirmation of Difference that is
ultimately ambivalent (Zizek, 2004). I believe asking the bottled
water and bottled soda multinational corporations (Coca-Cola,
PepsiCo, Nestlé) give a moral account of
their corporate personhood is long overdue.
Water has many stories to tell, one of them is a
moral account of oneself
Storytelling can
include Judith Butler's (2005).'giving an account of
oneself.' To me, Butler gets at a difference between Bakhtin's
(1993: 3), bystander (or special) answerability, and a 'moral
answerability.' For example, 'Giving a moral account of one's
water ways (behaviors, habits, neglects). What is interesting to
me, is Bakhtin is all about moving beyond monological narrative
and the dialectic of two monologues, to the dialogical of
polyphony (many voices, many logics). Yet, here is Butler doing
'negation of the negation' Hegelian dialectic in order to get at
something beyond the dyadic. Butler's is not the usual
narrative-counternarrative dialectics or story-counterstory
dialectics. 'Giving a moral account' has more to do with the
the relation between 'antenarrative' and 'anti-narrative' (Boje,
2001).
Why is All Water on
Earth Dinosaur Pee? One story water has to tell
us is that it is all dinosaur pee.
SOME NOTES:
OZARKA water is owned by Nestle, and in Texas it is said to be
sourced from Natural Springs.
In Texas it is sourced at three different Springs, so each has different pH level
WATER sourced in a State, is NOT subject to FDA jurisdiction. And see Documentary Tapped – only one person works in FD WITH JOB OF OVERSEEING BOTTLED WATER INDUSTRY.
https://www.isitbadforyou.com/questions/is-ozarka-water-bad-for-you
Nestle says ‘Water is NOT a Human Right!’ https://www.nestle-watersna.com/en/bottled-water-brands/ozarka/ozarka-water-quality-report
Bottled Water Leaches dangerous chemicals into what you drink.
Most plastic bottles end up in the land fill
USA consumes 50 billion plastic single use bottles a year, and 77% are not recycled, much of the ones that are, are down-cycled to making polyester shirts, or rugs.
Since plastic invent, and took off in 1950s, then in bottled water in 1970s, we have 9.2 billion tons of it, and more each year than the prior year, and ALL OF IT STILL HERE. Of the 9.2 billion tons, 6.2 billion tons of plastic never reaches the recycling bin, and that which does, most of that is not actually being recycled.
To acknowledge one's own
quantumness is to also acknowledge the limits of the linguistic
turn of social constructivism, and invent a sociomateriality way
of knowing, being, doing, and testing claims about 'true
storytelling.' I would agree with Judith Butler (2005: 42)
that I cannot know fully by mind and language alone, or by
coherent linear (beginning middle end) BME narrative or by
narrative morphology in the vernacular of Western Ways of Knowing.
To given an account of one self" (Butler, 2005: 42) is to fall
outside of social constructivism limits, but does not preclude
giving a quantum account in response to the query, 'Who Am
I?" I also agree there are blockages, we will explore
shortly to giving a full and final moral answerability account
(Bakhtin, 1993: 1-4). We are answerable to keep water alive
(water=life) beyond the water=$ of the multinational water
corporate personhood, even if our wards fail us.
Water=thirst is making its query, asking questions of the stupid
and wasteful uses of fresh water=ethics, a moral accountability
and moral answerability, goes beyond water=desire for premium
bottled water, and the new brands of mimicry, quantum water. This
misrecognition makes quantum storytelling a water-ethic project.
Water=desire, the desire to be recognized, is also an
antenarrative, not an anti-narrative project.
To explore giving a moral
account, consider this example of nine 'water='s this or that
recognition, and how would multinational water corporate
personhood, give an account?
Figure 2: Water Has Many Stories to Tell?
Which story gives an account of oneself, as the
personhood of the bottled water and bottled soda industry?
The Current State of
the Bottled Water and Bottled Soda Industry If
water=desire for bottled water and bottled soda, then what
happens to the recognition of water=life and water=ethics"
Any theory of recognition includes the desire to live, not just
the desire for premium water or convenience water. Horkheimer
and Adorno's (1944/2002) 'Culture Industry' (the process of
industrialization of mass produced culture of desire) makes
queries about moral answerability for corporate water uses. USA consumes 50
billion plastic water bottles a year, 23% head to recycling,
but 38 billion don’t go to recycling, and then only about 9%
actually gets recycled, because China is no long taking them,
and because it costs $$$ to sort the bottles, shred them, wash
them, heat them to sanitize, then melt into pellets and sell
to beverage companies.
50 billion USA plastic water bottles is 17 million gallons of oil. It takes 6,000 megajoules of electricity for each barrel of oil, and with all the oil for 40 billion bottles that is 106 billion megajoules of electricity, which is how the 25% oil calculation is based on.
BPA
has
been a resin to make plastics clear and strong since
the 1960s.
It is not just making plastic bottles, but coats the insides of beverage cans, and used to make epoxy.
The FDA does not regulate it, saying low levels of BPA are SAFE to use in foods, and of no harm to human body. But Mayo Clinic says cut back on plastic bottles, and on metal cans (coated in BPA), for your good health life.
PROBLEM GETS WORSE: BPA has phthalates, and FDA refuses to regulate them either. Phthalates are industrial chemicals are binding agents, and to soften plastic, make it clearer and more durable.Also used in cosmetic consumer products.
Phthalates however do cause reproductive, liver, kidney, and lung problems in human beings. See Canada & Guardian
CDC recommends further study, FDA says its safe to consume, but others say health hazard (Guardian). 2008 Henry Waxman bill did ban phthalates in some baby products
BUT the
science says phthalates are linked to asthmas,
attention-deficit disorder, breast cancer, Type II
diabetes, autism, and male fertility disorders. Watch the
milk because a lot of plastic tubes are used in milking
machines, and the phthalates make their way into even
glass bottles of milk.
In sum, its
time to query about corporations in the Culture Industry,
giving an account. Total global bottled water market is
expected to reach $215.12 billion (US) dollars by 2025.[1]
The 2018 State of the USA Beverage Industry: Bottled water
remains the No. 1 beverage in the USA. Bottled water sales in
2018 totaled $18.5 billion, and increase of 8.8% over the
previous year.[2] Bottled water volume
grew to 13.7 billion gallons in 2017. Per capita US
consumption of bottled water exceeded 42 gallons. American
consumed 50 billion plastic water bottled in 2018, but our
recycling rate is 23% (38 billion bottles). For 2018, Private
label bottled water had 22.9% market share, followed by
Coca-Cola’s Dasani (9%), Pepsi’s Aquafina (8.8%), Nestlé Pure
Life (7.1%), Coca-Cola’s Glaceau SMARTwater (6.9%). And
bottled water and bottled soda is only a small part of the
entire bottled beverage industry. There is fierce competition,
and the market is moving to establish premium bottled water
brands. In 2016, USA's bottled water use surpassed its bottled
soda consumption, and this all has to do with 'Culture
Industry' in the USA cathedral of consumption. And we are all
complicit, and its time for giving an account of oneself.
"The
mentality of the public, which allegedly and actually favors
the system of the culture industry, is a part of the system,
not an excuse for it" (Horkheimer &
Adorno, 1944/2002: 42).
[1]
Dailmail.co.uk “Dita Von Teese makes sparkling water sexy in
raunchy new advert for Perrier” by Georgina Littlejohn, 14
July 2010, accessed Apr 13 2019 at
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1294556/Dita-Von-Teese-makes-sparkling-water-sexy-raunchy-new-advert-Perrier.html;
see
also
https://www.treehugger.com/culture/dita-von-teese-showers-in-perrier-promotes-bottled-water.html
accessed
Apr 13 2019
Water=Desire Trends: The ‘storytelling of desire’
has a long history in water advertising and water branding
strategy. Before the 1990’s people drank tap water, not water in
single-use plastic containers. By 2016, the US consumption of
bottled water eclipsed tap water use.[1]
Soda manufacturers
(Coca-Cola & PepsiCo), and the largest beverage and
food-company (Nestlé) predicted the trend, and began (Coca-Cola launched
Dasani 1999; Nestlé bought Perrier in 1992; PepsiCo launched
Aquafina in 1994, with its reverse osmosis process). Bottled water (in glass)
has an old history. Poland Springs (now owned by Nestlé) was
founded in 1845. Perrier bottled by decree of Napoleon II in
1863 with the decree for ‘the good of France.’ San Pellegrino (now
owned by Nestlé founded in Italy, in 1900). In 1900 Deep Park
(now owned by Nestlé) served on the B&R railroad. Nestlé
launched Ice Mountain in 1989. These companies and scores of
wantabes changed Water=Desire, persuading consumers not only
that bottled water was an alternative to soda, but healthier,
more nutritious, safer, and more convenient than the thousand
times less expensive, more eco-friendlier, and actually
regulated, tap water.
[1]
Foodandwine.com “Americans now drink more bottled water than
soda”, by Max Bonem, May 34 2017 update, accessed Apr 13 2019
at
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/science-technology/americans-now-drink-more-bottled-water-soda
[1]
MarketWatch.com accessed Apr 13 2019 at
https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/the-global-bottled-water-market-size-is-expected-to-reach-usd-21512-billion-by-2025-2018-08-27
[2]
Bevindustry.com, Bottled Water 2018 accessed Apr 2019 at
https://www.bevindustry.com/articles/91268-2018-state-of-the-beverage-industry-bottled-water-remains-the-no-1-beverage-in-the-united-states?v=preview
Water=Desire Storytelling:
Question: Why is there insatiable desire for bottled water?
Celebrities sell us ‘desire’ for a lifestyle. Celebrities from
Donald Trump (Trump Ice Natural Spring Water in 2003 took the
in-house brand to national distribution), Ellen DeGeneres
(Vitamin Water Zero), Mark Wahlberg (AQUAHydrate in a workout
ad), Ashley Greene (SoBe Lifewater in an ad she wears nothing
but body paint), to Jennifer Aniston (Coca-Cola’s SMARTwater)
are being used to sell premium brands of water.[1]
Celebrities can earn millions. “In 2004, Glaceau named a Vitamin
Water Flavor – ‘Formula 50’– after rapper, 50 Cent, who, in
addition to being a shareholder, personally endorsed the
brand. Later, when Coca-Cola bought the drink in 2007, 50
made over a million on the deal” (IBID, Filtersfast.com). In 2007 Coca-Cola
purchased Glaceau and its water brands (SMARTwater, Formula 50,
and VitaminWater) for $4.2 billion dollars. Imagine calling
anything a VitaminWater
drink, that is half sugar (30 grams of sugar per bottle)
and is vapor-distilled water that provides fare fewer health
benefits than regular tap water. Why not crush a vitamin into
water and make your own zero calorie health drink? “Most
Americans are not vitamin-deprived.” The root problem, as
everyone knows, is diabetes and obesity, from too much sugar
(corn syrup) in soda pop.[2]
And an even deeper underlying problem is Water=Desire marketing
to pitch. Both ViaminWater and SMARTwater are storied to contain
electrolyte ions and high alkaline levels, but in fact they pH
is spiked up with additives such as sodium bicarbonate (ordinary
baking sode), and a few hyped minerals added for flavor such as
magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt, that is a laxative to relieve
constipation), potassium (used in water treatment processes in
regulated doses; potassium permanganate, however, is an oxidant
in water treatment, and adding too much of it is a health
concern for WHO, increasing risks of heart disease, kidney
disease, diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and so
on), and then there is calcium chloride (a salt used to de-ice
roads).[3] What is most alarming
is the silo effect of water regulation in the USA. The EPA
regulates public drinking water (tap water), while FDA regulates
bottled drinking water. While the EPA is understaffed, and
recently downsized, there are inspections, and on-the-books
regulations of tap water, with dozens of
measured tests, some done daily, with a report issued to
consumers each year by each locale, there is only one person
at the FDA that oversees the $200 billion dollar bottled water
industry that is not required to report on its testing, not
required to disclose its exact ingredients and any negative test
results given to the FDA, are not made public. Efforts to reform
this system of obvious health neglect and risk, are defeated
soundly by the bottled water and plastic industry lobbies.
“Disclosures, such as those required by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) in Consumer Confidence Reports (CCRs)
for public water systems,
are not required of any packaged food or beverage product.”[4]
[1]
Filtersfast.com “Celebrities for Bottled Water’, accessed Apr
13 2019 at
http://www.filtersfast.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/celebrities-for-bottled-water/
[2]
Livescience.com ‘Truth about Healthy Bottled water’, accessed
Apr 13 2019 at
https://www.livescience.com/4470-truth-healthy-bottled-water.html
[3]
WHO.int World Health Organization report on Potassium,
accessed Apr 13 2019 at
https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/water-quality/guidelines/chemicals/potassium-background.pdf?ua=1;
And
Christopher Wanjekarticle in LiveScience May 29 2017 on ‘The
Turth About ‘Health’ Bottled Water’ accessed Apr 13 2019 at
https://www.livescience.com/4470-truth-healthy-bottled-water.html
[4]
IBWA International Bottled Water Association, accessed Apr 13
2019 at https://www.bottledwater.org/education/labels
Walter Benjamin (1936) said
‘storytelling is coming to an end.’ Our competency as
humankind to convey living experience from one person to another,
mouth-to-mouth, is declining rapidly. Once the traveling
storytelling, the seaman, the transporter on land, and the at-home
storyteller in a blacksmith shop, had the competency to convey
experience mouth-to-mouth. Gertrude Stein (1935) did four lectures
on ‘narration’ at University of Chicago drawing large
crowds: about poetry narration, news narration, narrative
narration, and history narration. I agree with Benjamin and with
Stein: The ancient ways telling living experience are being
displaced by the new ways of narrative all about information
processing, and not much depth of history. What I have been
calling ‘living stories’ embedded in a place, unfolding in time,
in material ways (Boje, 2001, 2008, 2014) is different from what
Karl Weick (1995) calls retrospective narrative sensemaking. And I
agree with William James (1907: 98), “Things tell a story” because
things are ‘vibrant matter’ (Bennett, 2009/2010a, 2010b).
Therefore my short answer is ‘storytelling in and around
organizations’ in sociomaterialism ontology is what Karen Barad
(2007) calls intra-activity of materiality with discourse.
But there is more to it than that. Let me illustrate with a story
of things form my university.
What are Ensembles
of Multiplicities?
Multiplicities are theorized quite differently by Hegel, Bergson,
Deleuze, Sartre, Badiou (1999), Žižek, (2004) and Butler ( see
Boje, 20191, 2019b for more discussion). Deleuze's
(1991)interpretation of Bergson, comes up with intensive,
extensive, and virtual multiplicities. Nail (2013) argues that
Deleuze’s multiplicity work on political organization shifts from
Deleuze’s (1968/1994) work on heterogeneous assemblages of
multiplicity, work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) shifts to
functions of novels, painting, politics, geology with their own
logics. The criticisms are resultants of political ambivalence,
virtual hierarchy, subjective paralysis.
“The virtual object is a partial object — not simply because it
lacks a part which remains in the real, but in itself and for
itself because it is cleaved or doubled into two virtual parts,
one of which is always missing form the other” (Deleuze,
1968/1994: 100).
“For a potential or virtual object, to be actualized is to create divergent lines which correspond to — without resembling — a virtual multiplicity. The virtual process the reality of a task to be performed or a problem to be solves” (Deleuze, 1968/1994: 212).
“First, the virtual is not a mirror of the actual, as the real is
of the possible” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 243).
How to do Self-Correcting 'storytelling science' (Boje &
Rosile, 2019, in review).
We
propose doing ‘self-correcting induction,’ in a series of
abduction-induction-deduction cycles of self-correction inspired
in the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, Hannah Arendt, Karl
Popper, Henri Savall, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
We propose a way of doing a storytelling methodology called,
“self-correcting induction” from the work of Charles Sanders
Peirce (1933-1937, 5.580, which hereafter means Volume 5,
section #580): “In an induction we enlarge our sample for the
sake of the self-correcting effect of the induction.” Just before (5.579)
Peirce examples his enthusiasm, “So it appears that this
marvelous self-correcting property of Reason, which Hegel made
so much of, belongs to every sort of science, although it
appears as essential intrinsic, and inevitable only the highest
type of reasoning, which is induction.”
Boje and Rosile (2019, in review) develop 'storytelling science'
self-correcting induction-deduction-abduction for doing
storytelling research. They review seveal approaches to
self-correcting 'storytelling science' including work by Charles
Sanders Peirce, Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, and others.
"The ingenuity of the triadic dialectical movement--from Thesis to Antithesis to Synthesis -- is especially impressive when applied to the modern notion of Progress.... cycle of Becoming... Although the original movement is by no means progressive but swings back and returns upon itself, the motion from Thesis to Thesis establishes itself behind these cycles and constitutes a rectilinear line of progress" (Arendt, 1978: 49).The second kind of dialectic is the Negation, giving Future primacy over presenta and past (Arendt is citing Hegel's Science of Logic, p. 118 in the first exerpt and Nietzshe in the second):
"Being and Nothingness 'are the same thing, namely Becoming . . . One direction is Passing Away" Being passes over into Nothing; but equally Nothing is its own opposite, a transition to Being, that is Arising" (Arendt, 1978: 50).In other words, the two kinds of dialectics (Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Zigzag) and the Negation (of the Negation) constitute a double spiral movement of progress force and annihilating force.
"... the willing ego's time concept and the primacy it gives the future over the present and the past. The Will, untamed by Reason and its need to think, negates the present (and the past) even when the present confronts it with the actualization of its own project. .... Left to itself, man's Will "would rather will Nothingness than not will" (Arendt, 1978: 50).
"The dialectical process itself starts from Being, takes Being for granted (in contradistinction to a Creatio ex nihilo) in its march toward Not-Bieng and Becoming. The initiial Being lends all further transitions their reality, their existential character, and prevents them from falling into the abyss of Not-Being" (Arendt, 1978: 50).I want to contrast this with another approach to dialectic by Karl Popper. Popper's (1963) project was to exorcise extremes of Pessimism and Optimism, and develop a trial-and-error problem solving scientific method.
"BPA but not BPS concentrations were positively correlated with both estrogenic and antiandrogenic activities. BPA still dominates the thermal paper market in Brazil and Spain, and BPS appears to be one of the main alternatives in France. There is an urgent need to evaluate the safety of alternatives proposed to replace BPA as developer in thermal printing. The large proportion of samples with hormonal activity calls for the adoption of preventive measures"
rPET is the new fake torytelling by business of how to make plastic beverage drinks healthy for people and planet.
But the the plastic fiber in rPET breaks down, putting microplastics, and then nanoplastic particles into the water
PepsiCo says its consumers are INDIFFERENT to plastic effect on health and ecology, so it refuses to put post-consumer content on its labels
By 2030 global water demand will be 40% greater than it is today
(McKinsey Report). By 2030 40% of world’s population will lack
access to safe, sanitary water, in 2030 there will need 60% more
fresh water to support demand than we have today in the water
cycle. The developing nations are increasing water withdrawals
by 50% and 18% in developing nations. In short, the fresh water
system, if it were a bank, has more withdrawals than deposits,
and is bankrupt!
We can begin to look at the antenarrative dynamic processes in
relation to narratives as face-saving after each health crisis
from BPA sustitutes in plastic beveage containers, rPET health
risks, sugary sodas role in obesisty and other health risks, and
bottled water impact onf global water crisis, and so on.
"For Bakhtin (1973: 12) ‘narrative genres are always enclosed in a solid and unshakable monological framework.’ Coherence narrative posits mono-system-wholeness, mergedness, and finalizedness. The single observer posits unitary mono event horizon wholeness with one complexity property" (as cited in Boje, 2008: 43).
Living
story webworks, in Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) are theorized
to be more polyphonically dialogic, situated in space, time, and
practical doing. Narrative-counternarrative, in Western Ways of
Knowing (WWOK), by contrast, tends toward polemics, misses the
dialogical, and is retrospective and abstract, as opposed to in
the here and now, and practical.
"Polyphonic is fully embodied voices, not in hierarchy. They fully engage and debate one another, including author’s voice" (as cited in Boje, 2008: 39).
Things tell a story about the blockages to self-correcting spiral Upon return from sabbatical travels to seven countries, I noticed in our university (womewher ein the Southwest US), in the Business College, some things had been moved. The big 'blue' recycling bins, on wheels, that had occupied a place on the third floor of the Business Complex building (waiting for some donor to give it an endowment in exchange for naming it), those same bins now reside beneath the stairwell on the first floor. Things tell a story! When I walked the stairs (many young students take the elevator), to the third floor, I noticed in the place where the recycling things, that apparatus, that actant è in its place was some black furniture, some chairs too small to sit in, and an empty book case. I began to do some retrospective sensemaking narration (Weick, 1995).
Figure 6: Things Tell a Story - Under the
Stair Well at Business College
I recalled that this was
not the first time that big 'blue' recycling bins on wheels, were
moved under the stairwell. It is a definite fire hazard. You just
do not stack reculing cardboard and paper in a fire well. There
used to be, in 1996, four bins, neatly inside a wooden casement,
where faculty, staff, and students separated cardboard, color
paper, and white paper, and newspaper. In 1996 I motivated a
Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity pledge class to put stickers on
the light switch that said ‘switch em off when not in use’ and we
made posters over the blue recycle bins on the 3rd floor, so
people knew what things to threw into what bin. There used to be,
in 1996, four bins, neatly inside a wooden casement, where
faculty, staff, and students separated cardboard, color paper, and
white paper, and newspaper. About 12 years ago, a new
Business College dean, had the wooden casement tossed, and the
recycling bins moved under the stairwell. For this new dean (of 3
years) to follow suit and move the 3rd floor bins to the 1st
floor, into the stairwell, was another blow to recycling, but
dean’s prerogative, to redecorate. I recalled getting an email a
month ago, about each of six colleges having some windfall money,
left from the downsizing of the staff body and the faculty body,
to divide amongst them. I speculated, perhaps the new furniture
was ‘spoils’ of the downsizing. It’s not enough data to make an
empiric retrospective narrative. Still there had been a change in
the purpose of the university, and new administrators, and their
consultants were reshaping its systems.
Still, I was chair of the sustainability council of the university, twice, and worked hard to bring about greater consciousness of how recycling matters. When I taught the leadership course last Wednesday, I noticed another partial story. For the 22nd year, the Guthrie Building, classroom wing on the first floor did not have any recycling system at all. I had requested, but been told, again and again, there was no money for such things. I rebelled. I went to the administrative wing, which once housed the advising center (it was centralized across campus, and moved to other side of campus). I picked up an underused plastic bottle, cans, recycling system, and brought the thing into the other wing of the building, into the class of somewhat surprised leadership students. “Look, this is where you put your plastic bottles and your cans”. After class I put it back in the administrators’ wing of the building. I am contemplating antenarrative action, but it is my last semester, so why do I bother?
When William James (1907: 96-97) in traduces “Things tell a story”
he is writing the sixth specification of a systems theory, about
the unity of purpose”
“An enormous number of things in the world subserve a common
purpose. All the man-made systems, administrative, industrial,
military, or what not, exist each for its controlling purpose.
Every living being pursues its own peculiar purposes. They
co-operate, according to the degree of their development, in
collective or trivial purposes, larger ends thus enveloping lesser
ones, until an absolutely single, final and climacteric purpose
subserved by all things without exception might conceivably be
reached... Our different purposes are also at war with each
other.”
James does not claim teleological [narrative] unity, but rather an
aesthetic union when he states “Things tell a story”:
“… aesthetic union among things also obtains, and is very analogous to teleological union. Things tell a story. Their parts hang together so as to work out a climax. They play into each other’s hands expressively. Retrospectively, we can see that altho no definite purpose presided over a chain of events, yet the events fell into a dramatic form, with a start, a middle, and a finish. In point of fact all stories end; and here again the point of view of a many is the more natural one to take. The world is full of partial stories that run parallel to one another, beginning and ending at odd times. They mutually interlace and interfere at points, but we can not unify them completely in our minds. In following your life-history, I must temporarily turn my attention from my own” (p. 98, boldness mine).
I treat 'living stories' as unfolding in the present, and with as James puts it, partial stories interlacing making a living story webwork (Boje, 2014). For me, and most narrativists I know, it is narrative that demands an aesthetic unity, a dramatic form of beginning, middle, and end. Bakhtin (1981) says narrative is always monologic, in a narrative aesthetics, which goes back to Aristotle's (350BCE) narrative wholeness of the six elements; Stories, by contrast, are polyphonic.
Mikhail Bakhtin (1993: 2)
the book of his notebooks written between 1919 and 1921 tells us
‘Culture’-World and ‘Life’-World is not the same and constitutes
two-faced Janus, facing in different directions, with no unitary
plane between them for communication. Culture-World
looks backward, at the past, that never was, while Life-World
looks to the once-occurrent events of Being, here and now,
unfolding. I think Janus has a fourth face, I call antenarrative,
looking to the future.
Figure 7: The Four Worlds and Four Faces of Storytelling Paradigm (Boje, 2018 original)
In the figure I have drawn in the barrier between World of Culture and World of Life that Bakhtin has acknowledged where there is no possible communication, fusion, or creescence.
Antenarrative is constitutive of the living story here and now looking down at present, and the retrospective sensemaking narrative looking backward at the past (Boje, 2014, 2018b). Bakhtin says that the “aesthetic activity as well is powerless to take possession of the moment of Being which is constituted by the transitiveness and open event-ness of Being” (1993: 1). I take this to mean the retrospective narrative in its aesthetic activity of plots and characters is split off from the living story looking down at present, and in its moments of open event-ness of Being. Antenarrative is an ontology process of becoming ante (before, between, beneath, & bets on the future) by looking forward at many possible futures, and enacting one of them in historical act or activity. Narrative by itself is “unable to apprehend the actual event-ness of the once-occurrent event” of living story relations (Bakhtin, 1993: 1). Bakhtin’s two-faced Janus is only the World of Culture (i.e. narrative) and the World of Life (i.e. living story webs of relationality), while the three-faced Janus includes antenarrative processes, the prospective sensemaking, and pragmatist sensemaking of looking and preparing in advance, possible futures. Storytelling, therefore, is the Being of event “in its entirety” and as “a whole act [that] is alive” with antenarrative processes constitutive of narrative and living story (Bakhtin, 1993: 2). The World of Culture, its ‘special answerability’ as judgment validity, and the World of Life, its ‘moral answerability’ has no community except through antenarrative processes. Bakhtin’s special answerability actor does not intervene, merely looks on as the passive bystander, while moral answerability actor in the once-occurrent event-ness of Being actually does enter into the constitutive moment as active, complicit, responsible, and ethical participant in Life-World. In and around organizations we need more moral answerability.
Figure 8: Ensemble Storytelling Paradigm of Blockage between 2 worlds, and 2 antenarrative processes connecting worlds differently (Boje, 2018, original)
Above I propose two antenarrative pathways. One is from World of Future-antenarratively beneath World of Technology to World of Culture (& Narrative) in which a special answerability (bystanding). The second is a path of moral answerability from World of Future, antenarratively to the World of Life (& living story webs.
Bakhtin’s later work
(Bakhtin, 1981) stressed the monologic plots of Culture-World has
split from the polyphonic dialogism story Life-World, in all its
aliveness, here and now. I follow Bakhtin (Boje, 2008) as well as
the differences between western ways of knowing (WWOK) and
indigenous ways of knowing (WWOK) to develop an understanding of
the constitutive role of antenarrative processes in WWOK-narrative
and IWOK-living story relationships. My proposition is
that these two domains have different antenarrative processes:
WWOK-narrative and counternarrative are dialectical processes, and
IWOK-living story webs are dialogically constituted. Storytelling
is also historical and history-making.
Guilles Deleuze (1968/1994) provides us four narrative-illusions
that I must introduce to explain why I use storytelling as
inclusive of narrative, and say storytelling in and around
organizations, rather than the conference title, ‘narratives in
and around organization.’ You see, I am an ensemble storytelling
professor, and a Deleuzian ontologists with four critiques of
narrative illusions:
•First Illusion Representationalism of
Narrative: Thought is covered over by ‘image’ made up
of postulates. This is a slippage from Platonic world to the world
of representation (p. 265). Life world of living present is
not culture world of representation of some illusion of ‘pure
past’ (Deleuze, 1968/1994).
•Second Illusion Resemblance of Narrative-Culture to Life-World of Living Story: the subordination of difference to resemblance, the copy and the model are the resemblance, and the illusion of good sense (Deleuze, 1968/1994: 266).
•Third Illusion Narrative covers over the multiplicity play of antenarratives: “Beneath the platitude of the negative lines the world of ‘disparateness’… multiplicity…affirmations of differences” (Deleuze, 1968/1994: 266-7). This multiplicity of play of differences is for me antenarrative processes beneath both narrative and story.
•Fourth Illusion Narrative as “Subordination of difference to the analogy of judgment” (p. 269, boldness, mine). Narrative illusion is aesthetic analogy of judgment that Bakhtin (1993, his 1919-1921 notebooks) calls the world of culture that is a duality with the world of life. The world of life for me is the here-and-now once-occurrent Being of event-ness unfolding in living story webs of relationality that are nomadic.
I think we need to pay more
attention to various kinds of history that are in and around
storytelling organization and organizing. For this I would like to
turn to an essay Walter Benjamin wrote in 1940 that is part of Illuminations
collection (Benjamin, 1940/1955/1968/2007). My premise in this
essay is that storytelling in and around organizations is a
contest among multiple dynamic ontologies (Boje, 2018b) so poorly
understood that it is leading humanity to a 6th extinction because
despite all the globalization myths, there is ‘no
planet B’ (Boje, 2018a). Benjamin
(1936/1955/1968/2007) in his amazing essay, The Storyteller,
declared that ‘storytelling’ itself is ‘coming to an end’.
And a year earlier Stein (1935) seems to agree that various ways
of narration are displacing the ways of telling by those
storytellers who could convey experiences orally. Benjamin (1940)
gives us insight into ways of telling history, in this subversion
of IWOK living story-ability by narration, by WWOK-narrative and
its reverence, for textuality. If storytelling itself is changing
and our skill at conveying lived experience of the past to another
being, is atrophying, then this has implication for storytelling
in and around organizations.
Benjamin, believing the
Nazis were invading, left Paris for Port Bau Spain. He was en
route to the US to join with critical theorists, Adorno and
Horkheimer. He died September 26 or 27 1940 in, Spain,
either committed suicide when his manuscript was confiscated at
the border, or was covertly assassinated by Stalin’s murder squad,
for not doing dialectical historical materialism properly. Be that
as it may, Benjamin (1940) just before he died, wrote about the
interplay of different ways of doing history that can inform our
inquiry into the storytelling in and around organizations. These
are the types of history I read in Benjamin’s work: (1) historical
materialism focus on ‘material things’ telling about the class
struggle, differed from (2) historicism focus on the Judgment Day
of a redeemer, (3) the chronicler reciting historical events like
a rosary bead without distinguishing major and minor ones, with
nothing that ever happened completely lost form history, (4) the
biologist who looks at human history are but a few seconds on the
24-hour clock of world history, and (5) the soothsayer who
inquired into the future.
For Benjamin historical materialism offered a way to critique what
Lyotard (1979/1984) later called the progress narrative in his
report on education. “The true picture of the past flits by” in
the “historical outlook of historicism” is not “the way it really
was” (Benjamin, 1940: 255). Microstoria that I wrote about as a
contrasting method to historicism uses archives to recover that
past without filtering it through the present obsessions.
Historical materialism watches both the historicism of the present
and the microstoria rescuing of the past as moments of danger. The
historicism historian looks at images of the past, which
historical materialism claims become the “tool of the ruling
classes” (Benjamin, 1940: 255). Microstoria is in danger of
resurrecting a ‘pure past’ which Deleuze (1968/1994) says that
never was the ‘living present.” To this we can add that
retrospective narrative sensemaking is a conforming past, that is
used as a tool of the ruling elite of most every organization, and
the counter-narratives of the workers, and the
counter-counternarrative of historical materialism is not
succeeding in overturning the dominant narrative or the heroic CEO
or the rescuing Chancellor.
I would like now to turn to an organization example of how
storytelling is embedded in history that is shot through with
diverse discourses.
A Storytelling
Example of a University in Decline Public universities
are being run like businesses, and this is happening around the
world. Business consultants are being recruited to make it happen.
For example, September 2015, Chancellor Garrey Caruthers
commissioned Deloitte consultancy, at a cost of $622,700, to spend
five (some say ten) days with our university’s Board of
Regents. The consultants came up with a dandy PowerPoint
based on cutting and pasting some university budget data, and
advised the Regents to set up six task groups to do actual
implementation: To downsize both staff and faculty bodies, to
reorganize broader spans of control, collapse administrative and
academic units, trim some vice president’s assistants to
assistants, and to implement business process reengineering to
save countless millions. At a department meeting I attended on
August17 2018, I recently learned that our university, it Board of
Regents, did all that collapsing, downsizing, and increasing its
spans of control, consolidating resulting in nineteen
administrative units, and saving $12.1 million. The administrative
order now spends about $1 million a year to advertise locally on
billboards, placing ads in movie theatres claiming our university
has ‘no limits, no boundaries’, and there is to be a shopping
mall, a new golf course, and a hotel to encourage enrollment.
Other millions were divided among six deans to do whatever
they wanted to their colleges. A few short years ago, my
department had 17 faculty members and a solid doctoral program.
When I leave the end of December, six faculty members and a
department head assigned by the dean, from some other department,
will remain. My own answerability has switched from moral
answerability to the retiring bystander with only special
answerability. Our university is not alone. Taking a moral
answerability stand meant leading votes of no confidence, holding
a wake for the doctoral program, writing articles, giving
speeches, and actually marching in protest (Boje, 2017c; Boje,
Cai-Hillon, Mele, 2017; Boje & Cai-Hillon, 2017).
Our university is not alone in making the transition from being a
public university for the public good to being run as a business
with profit centers, including the new golf course, shopping mall,
hotel complex, under construction. For example, at McKinsey went
to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU).
Chancellor Steven Rosenstone hasn’t revealed what McKinsey &
Co. consultancy produced for its $2 million contract:
"MnSCU also released materials McKinsey produced to help the system launch an overhaul earlier this year. MnSCU officials say the company worked hard and provided guidance, not prescriptions, for a campus-driven process. But faculty and others say they remain troubled. The work took place away from public scrutiny, which, they say, makes it harder to size up its value. It didn’t help that MnSCU recently provided a McKinsey proposal for the project that was almost entirely redacted… McKinsey also helped pen a “change story”: an open letter to faculty, staff and students urging them to be bold in tackling changes and promising transparency. It created an engagement plan and provided training to administrators"
McKinsey did similar
consultation at Columbia University and University of North
Carolina with similar result of increasing academic capitalism by
using business consulting firms to implement austerity programs
(IBID.):
“…Columbia University faculty members criticized an unpublicized
$1.1 million McKinsey report that had recommended some graduate
tuition increases. At the University of North Carolina System, a
$2.6 million McKinsey report on eliminating academic program
duplication was not discussed by the governing board or a
strategic planning committee, according to media reports.”
What these consultancy
projects with universities (Deloitte at Kansas State University
and NMSU, McKinsey at Minnesota State Colleges, Columbia
University, and University of North Carolina) reveal is a
disturbing trend in higher education that includes lack of
transparency, circumvention of faculty governance, a quick fix
approach to downsizing and business process reengineering. And
each new chancellor/President/Provost has to have their own
consulting firm do it all again. My point is that much harm
results from the storytelling in and around universities that
legitimates these quick fix, cut-and-paste, PowerPoint and Xcel
spread sheet consultancy reports used to legitimize downsizing and
reorganization strategies Boards of Regents were going to do
anyway. Most every new chancellor hires a consulting firm to do it
all over again, tossing out years of implementation of the last
chancellor. So it was no surprise when yet another new chancellor
announced he would bring in his own consultancy firm, and also
expand the upper administration, and run the university like a
business. As the new chancellor at our university, Dan
Arvizu, puts it this way:
“Essentially, we’re running it like a business," Arvizu said.
"This is what you would do if you were in the private sector and
running an organization through a set of outcomes. It’s
challenging to do in academia, I get that … but we’re moving in
that direction” (Chancellor Arvizu plans to manage NMSU 'like a
business' Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-NewsPublished
3:14 p.m. MT July 28, 2018).
Figure 9: True Storytelling approach to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (see http://truestorytelling.org).
True Storytelling Workshop Slides DJØF May 16 2018 It has 7 ethical storytelling qualities and 7 principles of True Storytelling.
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