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.

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

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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

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Post

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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

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