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| '''Antenarrative''' is the process by which ] is linked to ]. For example, antenarrative bets on the future, which are things one imagines may come into being even if that imagination is not fully formed, draw on aspects of the past, those experiences someone has lived through, to form a coherent narrative, a telling with a beginning middle and end. In antenarrative theory the many ends of a narrative come first, then the elements of the past come next, leading to the creation of a narrative. Where causal logic in the hard sciences says the past leads to the present which results in the future; this reverses the temporal logic of causality, where many potential futures draw on different aspects of the past to generate narratives in the present. This is because antenarrative shifts the perspective taken when asking "why?" Where Causation in the physical sciences answers why with physical properties; antenarrative reorients why to embrace human intentionality, imagination, and agency. | |||
| :To talk about antenarrative as a bet is also to invoke an important structure in sense- making; namely, the presumption of logic (Meyer, 1956). ‘Without faith in the purpose- fulness of, and rationality of art, listeners would abandon their attempts to understand, to reconcile deviants to what has gone before or to look for their raison d’être in what is still to come’ (1956: 75). Antenarratives set up a similar dynamic. The transition from story to narrative is fostered by the belief that the fragments will have made sense although at the moment that is little more than a promise. Sensemaking, storytelling, and organizing become linked, in a Treasury inquiry or a recounting of one’s life story, when actors say to themselves and others, I will have moved on with these unplotted fragments because they promise to amount to something eventually. <ref>Weick, K. E. (2012). Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations, 65(1), 141-153.</ref>. | |||
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| ⚫ | While aspects of this process have been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, the term "antenarrative", coined by ] in 2001,<ref>Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative methods for organizational & communication research. Sage Publications Limited.</ref> has four primary uses. The first two uses of antenarrative are as the before(ante)-narrative, existing as story is turned to narrative, and a bet (ante) narrative, placed in hopes that something will become a retrospective narrative. The other two uses are spiral and ] antenarratives. | ||
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| ⚫ | Research in the journal, ], has recently found a number of nationally oriented antenarratives that are utilized in cross border mergers and acquisitions.<ref>Vaara, E., & Tienari, J. (2011). On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: An antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization Science, 22(2), 370-390.</ref> Other scholars that have utilized antenarrative include Barge 2004;<ref>Barge, J.K. (2004) Antenarrative and managerial practice. Communication Studies 55(1): 106-27.</ref> Collins & Rainwater, 2005;<ref>Collins, D. & Rainwater, K. (2005). Managing change at Sears: a sideways look at a tale of corporate transformation. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 18, No. 1: 16-30.</ref> Durant, Gardner & Taylor, 2006;<ref>Durant, R.; Gardner, K.; & Taylor, K. (2006). Indexical antenarratives as invitational rhetoric. Tamara Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 5 (3/4): 17-182.</ref> Vickers, 2005;<ref>Vickers, M. H. (2005). Illness, work and organization: Postmodern perspectives, antenarratives and chaos narratives for the reinstatement of voice. Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 3(2), pp. 1-15.</ref> Yolles, 2007;<ref>Yolles, M. (2007). The dynamics of narrative and antenarrative and their relation to story. Journal of Organizational Change Management. Vol. 20, No. 1: 74 – 94</ref> Grow 2009.<ref>and Grow, J.M. (2009), The gender of branding: Antenarrative resistance in early Nike women’s advertising. Women’s Studies in Communication, 31/3, 310-343.</ref> | ||
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| Research in the top journal,], has recently found a number of nationally oriented antenarratives that are utilized in cross boarder mergers and acquisitions<ref>Vaara, E., & Tienari, J. (2011). On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: An antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization Science, 22(2), 370-390.</ref>. | |||
| The antenarrative is pre-narrative, a bet that a fragmented ] story will make retrospective, narrative, sense in the future. In a recent description of the bet aspect of antenarrative ] has said "To talk about antenarrative as a bet is also to invoke an important structure in sense-making; namely, the presumption of logic (Meyer, 1956). ‘Without faith in the purpose- fulness of, and rationality of art, listeners would abandon their attempts to understand, to reconcile deviants to what has gone before or to look for their raison d’être in what is still to come’ (1956: 75).".<ref>Weick, K. E. (2012). Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations, 65(1), 141-153.</ref> Antenarratives serve a similar purpose. The process of moving from the nebulous and chaotic story to a narrative with a beginning middle and end is the antenarrative faith that story fragments will make retrospective sense some time in the future.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://srmo.sagepub.com/view/the-sage-dictionary-of-qualitative-management-research/n9.xml|title=Antenarrative - SAGE Research Methods}}</ref> | |||
| ==Spiral== | ==Spiral== | ||
| Spiral antenarrative goes beyond ] and ], closed signal loop, systems. Instead it utilizes the ] of ] and ] to show dynamically changing meanings. This is where antenarrative participates with ]. As David Boje says "This is a connection between more immediate-emergence-sensemaking and a prospective-sensemaking that anticipated a possible future by enacting particular sorts of actions of caring and in-Being involved, for a while, iteratively."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/655/anteriority_and_antenarrative_spiral.html |title=The Cyclic and the Spiral Antenarrative in storytelling systems complexity and anteriority |website=business.nmsu.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123113853/http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/655/anteriority_and_antenarrative_spiral.html |archive-date=2013-01-23}} </ref> Spirals are like circles except in that the variability of the trajectory is, itself, dissymmetrical<ref>Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1994). What is philosophy?, trans. H. Tomlinson and G. Burchell. Columbia University Press (New Yorkl. 1994. p. 21.</ref> Meaning that, unlike cycles, that which is part of the new spiral may be made up of, and utilize things unrelated to, the previous iteration. | |||
| Of the spiral antenarrative, David Boje says: | |||
| :The spiral-antenarrative causality is not linear, not cyclic, and conforms to dialectic of deviation-amplification with deviation-counteraction, in what Bakhtin (1981) calls heteroglossia forces of language and discourse, of which this antenarrative is very much a participant. This is a connection between more immediate-emergence-sensemaking and a prospective-sensemaking that anticipated a possible future by enacting particular sorts of actions of caring and in-Being involved, for a while, iteratively. Giles Deleuze (1994: 21) says, “Spirals whose principle is a variable curve and the trajectory of which has dissymmetrical aspects as though it had a right and a left.” <ref>http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/655/anteriority_and_antenarrative_spiral.html</ref> | |||
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== Rhizomatic assemblage == | ||
| Rhizomatic/assemblage antenarrative is the antenarrative process that is not theoretically causal, but rather combinatorial. It builds on the theoretical tradition of ] which allows for assemblages of interacting processes. When a narrative is forming but still maintains a level of ] regarding the multiple linear potentials, all of which interact during the formation, then the antenarrative is rhizomatic. As David Boje has said: from a storytelling method standpoint, "an assemblage (rhizome) has visible runners and invisible roots that connect agents (usually people, but also animals, and the fire of the forge) with actants (usually material things, such as the iron, the carbon, the subatomic stuff). Agents and actants, people and things, are networked together by their runners and rooting connectivity."<ref>Boje, David. ,</ref> This shows a kind of rhizome-ontology that can be found amongst various actors and ]. | |||
| Of the Rhizomeatic assemblage antenarrative, Boje says: | |||
| :Assemblage antenarrative is also called a rhizome. The linear has become non-linear with a variable sequence, an assemblage Deleuze & Guattari (1987) call a rhizome. The assemblage antenarrative has some linear, but these become nonlinear, and it is this that is most important to study. I, for example, am a blacksmith artist. And my linear antenarrative has become an assemblage antenarrative. My blacksmith iron-leaves, and railroad spikes I make into knives, and 1075 steel I forge into Kung Fu swords and the little wire heart of compassionate-caring swords constitute an emerging assemblage rhizome-antenarrative, an eventual product line for my blacksmith art small business. A rhizome in plant life is those tubers and the runners above ground (like strawberry patches) or the roots growing new ones (as in potato patches). In storytelling standpoint method, an assemblage (rhizome) has visible runners and invisible roots that connect agents (usually people, but also animals, and the fire of the forge) with actants (usually material things, such as the iron, the carbon, the subatomic stuff). Agents and actants, people and things, are networked together by their runners and rooting connectivity. The term ‘rhizome’ is used by Deleuze and Guattari (1987) to define social and material assemblages. Bruno Latour (1999, 2005) calls assemblage of actors and ‘actants’ by the name of ‘actornetwork-theory’ (ACT).<ref>http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/448/The%20Quantum%20Physics%20of%20Storytelling%20in%20book%20format%20Jan%202011%20Boje.pdf</ref> | |||
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Antenarrative is the process by which retrospective narrative is linked to living story. For example, antenarrative bets on the future, which are things one imagines may come into being even if that imagination is not fully formed, draw on aspects of the past, those experiences someone has lived through, to form a coherent narrative, a telling with a beginning middle and end. In antenarrative theory the many ends of a narrative come first, then the elements of the past come next, leading to the creation of a narrative. Where causal logic in the hard sciences says the past leads to the present which results in the future; this reverses the temporal logic of causality, where many potential futures draw on different aspects of the past to generate narratives in the present. This is because antenarrative shifts the perspective taken when asking "why?" Where Causation in the physical sciences answers why with physical properties; antenarrative reorients why to embrace human intentionality, imagination, and agency.
While aspects of this process have been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, the term "antenarrative", coined by David Boje in 2001, has four primary uses. The first two uses of antenarrative are as the before(ante)-narrative, existing as story is turned to narrative, and a bet (ante) narrative, placed in hopes that something will become a retrospective narrative. The other two uses are spiral and rhizome antenarratives.
Research in the journal, Organization Science, has recently found a number of nationally oriented antenarratives that are utilized in cross border mergers and acquisitions. Other scholars that have utilized antenarrative include Barge 2004; Collins & Rainwater, 2005; Durant, Gardner & Taylor, 2006; Vickers, 2005; Yolles, 2007; Grow 2009.
Pre/bet antenarratives
The antenarrative is pre-narrative, a bet that a fragmented polyphonic story will make retrospective, narrative, sense in the future. In a recent description of the bet aspect of antenarrative Karl Weick has said "To talk about antenarrative as a bet is also to invoke an important structure in sense-making; namely, the presumption of logic (Meyer, 1956). ‘Without faith in the purpose- fulness of, and rationality of art, listeners would abandon their attempts to understand, to reconcile deviants to what has gone before or to look for their raison d’être in what is still to come’ (1956: 75).". Antenarratives serve a similar purpose. The process of moving from the nebulous and chaotic story to a narrative with a beginning middle and end is the antenarrative faith that story fragments will make retrospective sense some time in the future.
Spiral
Spiral antenarrative goes beyond linear and cybernetic, closed signal loop, systems. Instead it utilizes the dialectic of deviation-amplification and deviation counteraction to show dynamically changing meanings. This is where antenarrative participates with heteroglossia. As David Boje says "This is a connection between more immediate-emergence-sensemaking and a prospective-sensemaking that anticipated a possible future by enacting particular sorts of actions of caring and in-Being involved, for a while, iteratively." Spirals are like circles except in that the variability of the trajectory is, itself, dissymmetrical Meaning that, unlike cycles, that which is part of the new spiral may be made up of, and utilize things unrelated to, the previous iteration.
Rhizomatic assemblage
Rhizomatic/assemblage antenarrative is the antenarrative process that is not theoretically causal, but rather combinatorial. It builds on the theoretical tradition of qualia which allows for assemblages of interacting processes. When a narrative is forming but still maintains a level of ambiguity regarding the multiple linear potentials, all of which interact during the formation, then the antenarrative is rhizomatic. As David Boje has said: from a storytelling method standpoint, "an assemblage (rhizome) has visible runners and invisible roots that connect agents (usually people, but also animals, and the fire of the forge) with actants (usually material things, such as the iron, the carbon, the subatomic stuff). Agents and actants, people and things, are networked together by their runners and rooting connectivity." This shows a kind of rhizome-ontology that can be found amongst various actors and actants.
See also
- Storytelling
- Narrative Therapy
- Augmented Cognition or Intelligence Amplification
- Organizational Storytelling
- David Boje
- Narrative
References
- Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative methods for organizational & communication research. Sage Publications Limited.
- Vaara, E., & Tienari, J. (2011). On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: An antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization Science, 22(2), 370-390.
- Barge, J.K. (2004) Antenarrative and managerial practice. Communication Studies 55(1): 106-27.
- Collins, D. & Rainwater, K. (2005). Managing change at Sears: a sideways look at a tale of corporate transformation. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 18, No. 1: 16-30.
- Durant, R.; Gardner, K.; & Taylor, K. (2006). Indexical antenarratives as invitational rhetoric. Tamara Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry, Vol. 5 (3/4): 17-182.
- Vickers, M. H. (2005). Illness, work and organization: Postmodern perspectives, antenarratives and chaos narratives for the reinstatement of voice. Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 3(2), pp. 1-15.
- Yolles, M. (2007). The dynamics of narrative and antenarrative and their relation to story. Journal of Organizational Change Management. Vol. 20, No. 1: 74 – 94
- and Grow, J.M. (2009), The gender of branding: Antenarrative resistance in early Nike women’s advertising. Women’s Studies in Communication, 31/3, 310-343.
- Weick, K. E. (2012). Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations, 65(1), 141-153.
- "Antenarrative - SAGE Research Methods".
- "The Cyclic and the Spiral Antenarrative in storytelling systems complexity and anteriority". business.nmsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-01-23.
- Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1994). What is philosophy?, trans. H. Tomlinson and G. Burchell. Columbia University Press (New Yorkl. 1994. p. 21.
- Boje, David. Quantum Storytelling,