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Peaceaware is defined as insight into a ♥-of-Care, a non-linear storytelling that is shaping the future, the destining of creating peace, by insightful awareness into the Second Renaissance called 'Quantum Storytelling,' a communion of quantum physics with a peaceaware storytelling. The French have two words for future: 'futur' as 'prediction' of how the 'before' will recur in the future, and 'avenir' the shaping and creating of future (the bet). This double meaning is the foundation of 'antenarrative' the 'before'-narrative solidifies, and the 'bet' of avenir, the shaping and creating of the future that is before narrative. Antenarrative is simply put a connectivity of little living stories we live and the bigger grander narratives that fossilize. That is a avenir happening between physics and storytelling. In 1st Renaissance art developed perspectives and science fell in love with Newtonian mechanistic physics resulting in late modern capitalism. both developments (physics & capitalism) transformed storytelling. In 2nd Renaissance art goes quantum and physics-science is falling in love with the observer effect, in a new ways of fore-conceiving materiality in very different ways than ever before. The old materiality had what Zygmunt Bauman calls 'solid modernity' and the new one, a 'liquid modernity.' Our solid modernity was the iron cage of Weberian bureaucracy and the mechanistic physics materialist rhetoric of vulgar representation of our material condition. When this new materiality encounters a more liquid storytelling, the communion is 'Quantum Storytelling' a very different materialist rhetoric, not as a linear-repeating prediction (from before, but rather as a 'bet' of 'avenir' the future-ahead-of-itself, arriving to transform the past and present. We are just beginning to notice how George Herbert Mead (1958), Martin Heidegger (1962), and especially proto-pragmatist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962) have a very different conception of space-time-materiality. In particular, Merleau-Ponty's (1962: 309) temporal wave and his sense of spiral (p. 315), provides a very different antenarrative: "But co-existence, which in fact defines space, is not alien to time, but is the fact of two phenomena belonging to the same temporal wave" (p. 309). I combined these insights in the film, with Heideggerian ontology, a being-in-the-world where spiral-antenarratives buffeted by updraft and downdraft forces is mediating in-between little living stories we live and the narrative grand representations. I am working on a new book on Pragmatist Storytelling Philosophy, where the pragmatist-ontology antecedes and antenarrative-connects the epistemic narratives, the empiric narratives, with the little living stories. What you can do:

1. Before viewing film "Quantum Storytelling: Blacksmithing Art in the Quantum Age", for the pragmatist connection see Finland Presentation on Pragmatist Storytelling Philosophy in Liquid/Quantum Modernity Nov 20 2012 pdf.
2. WRITE ABOUT IT: Tamara Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry - this is a storytelling journal that takes on critical challenges facing organizations
3. Visit the ARCHIVES:
   1. David Boje's online VITA with article and chapters online and free.
   2. Boje Family History pages (need password)
4. Contact David Boje for quantum storytelling seminar or twitter Follow @davidboje  | or join Facebook discussions |
5. Write something in the Quantum Storytelling BLOG
6. Order new Antenarrative Handbook:

Quantum Storytelling MENU OPTIONS:

1. Defining quantum storytelling inquiry methods:

   1. See film: "Quantum Storytelling: Blacksmithing Art in the Quantum Age" (version 2 on YouTube)

   • DESCRIPTION: This is a film about my 'Quantum Storytelling' approach. It is produced by Grace Ann Rosile and David M. Boje. Boje narrates the video. The video presents the eleven D's of Quantum Storytelling from an ontological standpoint.
     1. Directionality, 2. Datability, 3. Duration, 4. Disclosability, 5. Destining, 6. Deployment, 7. Dwelling, 8. Deseverance, 9. Drafts, 10. Dispersion, 11. Detaching
   • Joe T. Meier directed the video, Aaron Hethcox did the sound, and Jones Huerta the cinematography. All songs, pictures, and art images are used with permission, and in accordance with IRB at NMSU.
   • As it says in the film: "David M. Boje, Ph.D. is a blacksmith and a Distinguish Achievement Professor, at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, US. This website has, his books, and on line articles, and a BLOG to talk about quantum storytelling, and another BLOG to discuss blacksmith art in the Quantum Age.
   • See slides from Denmark Film Debut - The Film Debut Premiere was in Aalborg University on May 30, 2012, as a presentation to the faculty after David M. Boje received an Honorary Doctorate degree award from the university. There is a PDF of slides of Blacksmith Art in Denmark and the list of questions asked in the interviews of the 13 blacksmiths who were interviewed in US, Canada, France, and UK. Boje plans to interview blacksmith artists in Denmark.
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   • In the video you will see this photo of my great-grandparents (on my mother's side). Wilda was my grandmother. Still is. This film is dedicated to my great grandfather, William Henry Shelton (born July 26 1863 in Brownstown, Indiana; died Aug 18 1946), who in 1897, crossed the Rocky Mountains, with his family, in a covered wagon, and opened the first blacksmith shop and livery stable in Goldendale, Washington. He taught my grandmother Wilda to be a trick rider in the rodeo, back in the day, when as my mother told it "women just didn't do that sort of thing!"
   • "I should explain why blacksmithing has anything to do with ‘quantum storytelling.’ I work on implementing processes that will be able to help me fashion quantum storytelling with the iron forging and repoussé in my blacksmith shop these past six years. And I am trying to understand just how the storytelling is disclosed in the quantum-ness of the metal, and how the metal is disclosed in the quantum-ness of the storytelling in the past three years.  I am becoming a blacksmith that does quantum storytelling in metal art" (Boje, Quantum Storytelling, online book, p. 20)."
   • Before viewing the film (Boje, 2012d, Quantum Storytelling: Blacksmithing Art in the Quantum Age), it will help to study some stills of Boje-the-blacksmith's double slit experiment
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   • Blacksmiths since the invention of the grinding wheel, have uses a spark test to discern how much carbon is in the steel. Low carbon steel has a few spark trails with few star bursts, and little branching in the trails. I do not claim this is a scientifically controlled experiment. I am just doing 'quantum storytelling' to articulate how blacksmith's test for carbon, and putting it into a quantum context.
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   • I have made the double slit in some sheet metal. And Joe Meier is holding paper screen, to see where the spark land and do they make the characteristic double band of a particle effect, or is it the several bands characteristic of the wave effect, or is it both? "In the Copenhagen interpretation, there is a change in how we think of materialism. My art is here to “rescue materialistic Newtonian mechanistic physics and put blacksmithing into the Quantum Age" (Boje, 2012b, the online book on Quantum Storytelling, p. 16, accessed May 29, 2012).
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   • Here is a close up of the the white hot carbon electrons, visible as they combining with oxygen in the air, and leaving yellow-light trails. Question: do you see more than two bands. If so, then it is the wave effect. And it is a disclosability of the future, because according to the Copenhagen interpretation of 1927, a distribution of electrons will make its band pattern even when one electron goes through the slots. We looked at the imprint of the carbon on the paper, but without more instruments, could not decide if it was wave, particle, or both? It's what Werner Heisenberg (1958) in his book Physicks and Philosophy calls the 'principle of indeterminacy' and Niels Bohr calls the 'principle of complementarity.' I don’t want to do art in the “old materialistic ontology” (Heisenberg, 1958: p. 144). My main point of doing the quantum storytelling, and this double slit experiment, blacksmith-style, is that if we are in the Quantum Age, then we need some language that is not tainted and saturated with the old materialistic ontology of Newtonian physics. And there is blacksmith art which is part of the mutli-stylistic ways of storytelling in the Quantum Age (Bakhtin, 1981, see stylistic dialogism essay, or Boje 2008a, chapter on stylistic dialogism, where there is not just oral and text-modes of storytelling, but the stylistics of architecture). And lots of blacksmiths worldwide do architectural metal sculpting.

   Some reference to my work on quantum storytelling and to ones mentioned above:

   Arendt, Hannah. (1958). The Human Condition.

   Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist; Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
   Bakhtin, M. M. (1990). Art and Answerability. Edited by Michael Holquist & Vadim Liapunov. Translation and Notes by Vadim Liapunov; supplement translated by Kenneth Brostrom. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.  From Bakhtin’s first published article and his early 1920s notebooks.
   Bakhtin, M. M. (1993). Toward a Philosophy of the Act. Translation and Notes by Vadim Liapunov. Edited by Michael Holquist & Vadim Liapunov. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. From Bakhtin’s early 1920s notebooks. 1993 is First English printing.

   Boje, D. M. (2008a). Storytelling Organizations. London: Sage.

   Boje, D. M. (2011a). Storytelling the Future of Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook. NY/London: Routledge.
   Boje, D. M. (2011b) .A Subtler Quantum Physics for ‘Storytelling Organization’ Theory, Method Practice. Conference Proceedings of the Standing Conference For Management and Organizational Inquiry in Philadelphia, April 13-16, 2011. Editor Donna Carlon..  See pre proceedings draft version.
   Boje, D. M. (2011c). Quantum Physics Implications of Storytelling for Socioeconomic Research Methods: Experiences in Small Business Consulting Research from New Mexico State University. Paper and keynote presented to the International meeting of Research Methods Division of Academy of Management, in Lyon, France, June 15 2011. Published in the Proceedings of the conference. Click here for pre-publication PDF.
   Boje, D. M. (2011d). Quantum Storytelling - proceedings and papers of Dec 16-18th 2011 conference in Las Cruces, NM. See http://peaceaware.com
   Boje, D. M. (2011e).Antenarrative Time, Space, and Matter in Teleological Causality:
   Thanking Hugo Letiche for His work on Bergson. University for Humanistics, DBA Methodology Workshop: Storytelling and Narrative in Organizational Research, 19th April, Utrecht, Netherlands. Preconference version of the presentation.
   Boje, D. M. (2012a). Reflections: What does Quantum Physics of Storytelling Mean for Change Management? Journal of Change Management, accepted 7/22/2011, Vol. 12 (3): 253-271. Click here for pre-press PDF.
   Boje, D. M. (2012b). Boje seminars on Quantum Storytelling in Lille France March 2012. At http://peaceaware.com
   Boje, D. M. (2012c). "The ♥-of-Care of the Life-Path of Organizations Double-Spiral-Antenarratives through Landscapes of Quantum Fields"  working paper on line at http://peaceaware.com
   Boje, D. M. (2012d). , Quantum Storytelling: Blacksmithing Art in the Quantum Age, Video accessed May 19, 2012 at https://vimeo.com/42489199
   Boje, D. M. (2012e). Ethnostatistics, Qualimetrics, and Ontological Storytelling, working paper on line at http://peaceaware.com

   Boje, D. M. (2012f). Quantum Storytelling. Free online book (until it gets finished with its revisions, and a publisher calls).

   Boje, D. M. (2012g) Quantum Spirals for Organization Consulting online book (until it gets finished with its revisions, and a publisher calls).

   Boje, D. M.; Durant, Ivy; Coppedge, Krisha; Marcillo-Gomez, Marilu; & Chambers, Ted. (2011). Social Materiality: A New Direction in Change Management and Action Research. Pp.580-587 in The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change, Edited by David Boje, Bernard Burnes, John Hassard * ISBN: 978-0-415-55645-3.

   Boje, D. M.; Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg; & Strand, Anete M. Camille. (2013) TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIALSTORYTELLING THEORY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION, was accepted 9/27/2011 for publication in Journal of Management Philosophy, expected date of publication, 2013. Click here fore pre-press PDF.

   Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time.

   Heisenberg, Werner. (1958). Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science. NY: Harper & Brothers Publications.

   Mead, George Herbert. (1958). The Philosophy of the Present.

   Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1962). The Phenomenology of Perception. Online pdf.

   • For more information and references to books and articles mentioned in the video, see http://peaceaware.com; for a more linear presentation on the 11 D's complete with blacksmith quotes in English and in French, please see PDF slides of the Lille, France advanced methods seminar presentation.

   1. Read Quantum Storytelling (Boje, 2012) & IT's A FREE Book with references used in the film

   2. More on Quantum storytelling in articles, chapters, presentations at David Boje's online VITA
   3. Practical Applications:
      1. Please Participate in Quantum Storytelling BLOG Q&A
      2. See Quantum Storytelling Study Guides for Small Business applying the Savall, Zardet & Bonnet (2008) approach to socioeconomic interventions research for small and medium business enterprises.
      3. Ways to Attend Quantum Storytelling Seminars and Conferences:
         1. Quantum Storytelling - proceedings and papers of Dec. 16-18th 2011 conference in Las Cruces, NM
         2. Attend Sc'MOI - Standing Conference for Management and Organization Inquiry - participate with those doing pioneering work in 'quantum storytelling' and developing ways to address storytelling Being-in-the-world.
      1. Join the Facebook sc'MOI Discussion page

2. What is Living Story? A living story is somethiing I have developed in relationship to narrative and to antenarratives, as the triadic domain of storytelling discourse. I first encountered the idea when I began my colleagueship with Kaylynn Twotress in 1997, and the idea took on more aliveness with Jo Tyler's work. Living story developed more materiality in working with Cajete's and Vizenor's work on materiality in relation to story. And it has more 'material storytelling' with my introduction to Anete Strand's work. Finally, in the Quantum Storytelling (Boje, 2012) book and the 'Quantum Storytelling: Blacksmithing Art in the Quantum Age' (Boje, 2012), I am developing the quantum-ness of living story in ontological ways.

3. What is Antenarrative? A 'before' narrative coheres, and a 'bet' on transforming the future, as defined in the 2001 Book (Sage publishers). The 'before' way of antenarrative is about prediction, the past recurring in the future. The 'bet' or gambling way is how to shape and create different futures, and that is a very different sort of antenarrative. The 'before' antenarratives are 'linear-' and 'cyclical-antenarratives' of recurrence. The 'bet' ways are gambles on creating and shaping 'spiral-' and 'assemblage-antenarratives.'

1. Why are cyclical-antenarrative linear and why is the blacksmith artist living labor differently than the university professor who is now only an intellectual laborer? An essay about Hannah Arendt's (1958) rendering of cyclical-eternal-recurrence.

2. Order Storytelling and Future of Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook - (2011, Routledge publishers)
3. Boje seminars on Quantum Storytelling in Lille France March 2012 give quotes from interviews in France and North America about the 11 D's.
4. Merleau-Ponty's (1962: 309) quote about 'spiral' gives some insights into antenarrative dynamics of spacetimemateriality: "If we project on to the screen the post-image of a spiral revolving round its centre, in the absence of any fixed framework, space itself vibrates and dilates from the centre to the periphery." The linear-, cyclic-, rhizomatic-, and spiral-antenarratives are very intertwining as they intra-actively connect the narratives (epistemic & empiric) with the little living stories. It is this dynamic of narrative-antenarrative-[little living]story that I call the domain of storytelling. It has a materiality, not in the Newtonian sense, but in the quantum sense.
4. Quantum Blacksmith Art - my 'quantum storytelling' ideas come from my alchemy of doing blacksmith art sculptures:
• Quantum Blacksmithing BLOG Blacksmithing is ancient alchemy processes of moving metal, and its is all the new processes of power hammers, plasma and laser cutters, CAD/CAM design etc.
• Boje's Quantum Blacksmithing Artist artwork
5. ADVANCED MATERIAL:
   1. "The ♥-of-Care of the Life-Path of Organizations Double-Spiral-Antenarrative choices through Landscapes of Quantum Fields" What the 'bet' sort of antenarratives (spiral- & rhizomatic-assemblage-antenarratives) offer is encounters with ethics of care, ethics of answerability, in the whole life-path of once-occurrent Being as Bakhtin calls it, or the care for potentiality of Being-a-whole-Self as Heidegger calls his ontological approach. Both are about a life-path rather than a mere epistemic (past narrative) or an ontic (objectification of present). The 'bet' is on 'avenir' shaping and creating a field of potentialities, that also arrive ahead to shape past and present. This is a radical, non-linear approach to quantum storytelling.
   2. Ethnostatistics, Qualimetrics, and Ontological Storytelling -
      1. Ethnostatistics was invented by my friend and colleague, Robert Gephart Jr.. As I interpret ethnostatistics, it is the ontic measuring and calculating mode of inquiry objectifies living stories, and splits off from both the epistemic and ontological modes of inquiry. There are three moments of ethnostatic inquiry: (1) numbers come from a subjectivity; (2) the mathematics of calculation gets mis-applied in social science quantitative methods; and (3) storytelling rhetorics of interpretation of numbers and the math-output tables stretches to an incredibility.
      2. Qualimetrics - invented by Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet (2005) - As I interpret it, Qualimetrics unifies the split between qualitative (epistemic), quantitative (ontic), and the ontological (life-path processes in-Being) by taking an interdisciplinary approach.
      3. Tetranormalization - Also invented by my French colleagues.
         1. Savall 2010 book
         2. See Boje & Rosile essay on Wings of Tetranormalization.
         3. Order CD on Tetranormalization from the 2011 conference

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