1. Methodological Travails Allan Parsons May 2015

2. "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.

3. 8 May 2015: Methodological Travails: a Telling 8 May 2015 – 15 May 2015: Unresolved Narrative Tensions 15 May 2015: Methodological Travails: A Taling

4. Narrative Environments - Methodological Travails Links Email: a.l.l.an.parsons@csm.arts.ac.uka.l.l.an.parsons@csm.arts.ac.uk WordPress Forum: http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/methodologies/ http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/methodologies/ WordPress Site: http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/ Blog: http://prolepsis-ap.blogspot.co.uk/?view=flipcardhttp://prolepsis-ap.blogspot.co.uk/?view=flipcard Wiki: https://sites.google.com/site/praxisandtechne/Home/architecture/place/narrat ive-environment/encyclopaedia-of-narrative-environments https://sites.google.com/site/praxisandtechne/Home/architecture/place/narrat ive-environment/encyclopaedia-of-narrative-environments Wiki resources: https://sites.google.com/site/praxisandtechne/Home/architecture/place/narrat ive-environment/encyclopaedia-of-narrative-environments/resources-for- narrative-environments https://sites.google.com/site/praxisandtechne/Home/architecture/place/narrat ive-environment/encyclopaedia-of-narrative-environments/resources-for- narrative-environments

5. Why Methodology? http://citationality.myblog.arts.ac.uk/method-and-methodology/

7. Research Methods Quantitative Qualitative Performative Reflexive Methodology

8. Methodological Approaches Marxist historical materialism Logical positivism Husserlian phenomenology Heideggerian existentialism Lacanian psychoanalysis Derridean deconstruction Foucauldian archaeology Actor-network theory Feminist materialism New materialisms Modernist - Postmodernist Structuralist - Poststructuralist Deleuzo-Guattarian rhizomatics Post-Humanism

9. Ontology Agency [Ethics] Politics ‘System’

10. Methodological Orientations Narrative [Story-World] Environment [World-Story] Ontological

11. Methodological Orientations Narrative Environment Performativity Ontology Agency

12. Methodological Orientations Narrative Environment Performativity Ontology Agency Actant [Network]

13. 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.http://www.dooy.salford.ac.uk/ext/ant.html. Accessed 26 May 2010.

14. Methodological Orientations Narrative Environment Performativity Ontology Agency Actant [Rhizome]

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Sources of actantial theory Greimas’ ‘actantial model’ Lacan’s Schema-L Aristotle’s square of opposition [as diagrammed by Apuleius] [Structuralism – Poststructuralism]

19. Not-INot-me IMe Other Self

20. Not-INot-me IMe [The] Other [Calls – Vocative] Self

21. Diffractive Difference Narrative environment Actant rhizome Actant