How might we attend to story as a vital more-than-human presence?
Shared by ANGELA MOLLOY MURPHY
How might we attend to story as a vital more-than-human presence? Two old friends have returned after an absence. A child who departed for kindergarten in June has come to visit in November, bringing a cherished story along with her. “The Story of La Luna” was a vital more-than-human presence in our community during the time that the child attended our preschool. Some of us fondly remember the child and the story, while the child and story are entirely new to others, creating a complex entanglement of presences, absences, and late arrivals (Ringrose, Warfield & Zarabadi, 2019) in today’s school assemblage. The child/story make their way into the digital atelier where spacetimematterings (Barad, 2010) and material entanglements intra-act to produce the story anew. The child’s experiences at Japanese immersion school, the appearance of a unicorn-child, and a movie several children saw in the theater this weekend are among the known elements that have come to matter in today’s story event.
References
Barad, K. (2010). Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come. Derrida Today, 3(2), 240–268. https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2010.0206
Ringrose, J., Warfield, K., & Zarabadi, S. (2019). Feminist posthumanisms, new materialisms and education.