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Methodological Travails
Allan Parsons May 2015
"Well, you know or don’t you kennet or haven’t I told you every telling has a taling and that’s the he and the she of it.”James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. London: Faber & Faber, 1975, p.213.
8 May 2015: Methodological Travails: a Telling
8 May 2015 – 15 May 2015: Unresolved Narrative Tensions
15 May 2015: Methodological Travails: A Taling
Narrative Environments - Methodological Travails Links
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Why Methodology?
http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/method-and-methodology/
Research Methods
Quantitative
Qualitative
Performative
ReflexiveMet
hodo
logy
Methodological Approaches
Marxist historical materialism
Logical positivism Husserlian phenomenology
Heideggerian existentialismLacanian psychoanalysis
Derridean deconstruction
Foucauldian archaeology
Actor-network theory
Feminist materialism
New materialisms
Mod
erni
st -
Post
mod
erni
stStructuralist - Poststructuralist
Deleuzo-Guattarian rhizomatics
Post-Humanism
Ontology
Agency
[Ethics]
Politics
‘System’
Methodological Orientations
Narrative [Story-World]
Environment [World-Story]
Ontological
Methodological Orientations
Narrative
Environment
Performativity
Ontology
Agency
Methodological Orientations
Narrative
Environment
Performativity
Ontology
Agency
Actant [Network]
Why actant?
“Latour defines 'actantiality' as "what provides actants with their actions, with their subjectivity, with their intentionality, with their morality". (Basden, 2002-2008)
Reference: Basden, A. (2002-2008). Dooyeweerd and Latour's Actor-Network Theory.Available at http://www.dooy.salford.ac.uk/ext/ant.html. Accessed 26 May 2010.
Methodological Orientations
Narrative
Environment
Performativity
Ontology
Agency
Actant [Rhizome]
Why rhizome?The term ‘rhizome’ is a metaphor for a non-linear, non-eschatological, non-teleological system or network. A non-linear narrative story-world can be said to be ‘rhizomatic’.Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987). Introduction: Rhizome. In: A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 3–25.
Argument:
Actantiality, because it is rhizomatic, i.e. forms a complex, non-linear system or network or story-world, articlulates inside and outside, the subjective and the objective, the self and the other.
Actantiality is inherently inter-subjective and inter-corporeal.
It therefore differs from simpler models of subjectivity, agency and intentionality.
Sources of actantial theory
Greimas’ ‘actantial model’
Lacan’s Schema-L
Aristotle’s square of opposition [as diagrammed by Apuleius]
[Structuralism – Poststructuralism]
Not-INot-me
I Me
Other
Self
Not-INot-me
I Me
[The] Other [Calls – Vocative]
Self
Diffractive Difference
Nar
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Actant