Nine Levels of “Storytelling Organization” Complexity chap 1

1. FRAMEWORK: unique property is mapping the types of narratives in use by “storytelling organization.” Narrative maps, such as tragic, romantic, comedic, satiric are dominant framework, but have forgotten “epic-story” interactivity with such narrative types.

2. MECHANISTIC: unique property is metrics to index time and travel motions of narratives throughout segments of the Storytelling Organization. There are narratives about eras, summarizing everyday crisis points, but no biographical narration; time and space are mechanistic, imitative of machine metaphorization.

3. CONTROL: unique property is centralized first-order cybernetic control of narratives behavior with rule-based mechanisms of deviation-counteraction control. Observed narrative-scripts are compared to idealized narrative by a core of specialists noting deviations from the rules. 1st cybernetics is a complication of machine metaphorization.

4. OPEN: unique property is second-order cybernetic deviation-amplification which opposes the level 3 deviation-counteraction, to accomplish self-maintenance while a throughput of narratives of retro sensemaking environment are sorted, without much or any knowledge generation. 2nd cybernetics is further complication of machine metaphorization. 2nd order is about storing requisite variety, it’s the beginning of varietymaking.

5. ORGANIC: unique property is division of labor among mutually interdependent parts, each with highly specialized narrators, not doing much more than filtering environments for positive or negative narratives. Organization metaphorization framework, and machine-cybernetics coexist with mimicry of tree or plant. Up to this level narrative imprison story varietymaking in sign re-presentations; mimicry of more polyphonic polylogic is not pronounced; Polyphonic dialogism is not yet apparent.

6. IMAGE: unique property is the beginning of self-awareness and the narrating teleologically. Narratinging image of organization is differentiated from throughput processing of environmental narrative. Small antenarratives (bet & before fragments that aspire to narrative coherence) can transform a calcified image narrative. Metaphorization is computer-screen image mimicry achieved through orchestrating stylistic dialogism strategically. Both polyphonic and stylistic dialogism have emerged and interact.

7. SYMBOL: unique is self-consciousness achieved through self-reflexive storytelling. Stories are self-reflexively co-produced and co-interpreted at symbolic level, not just mere signs or images. The chronotopicity of constructing multiple space and time conceptions is salient. History is now pluralized reflexivity and relativity.

8. NETWORK: unique property is self-reflexive awareness of organization situated in network of societal discourses that proscribe roles to organizations that organizations rescript. Architectonic interanimation of cognitive, ethical, and aesthetic discourses, of which story varietymaking is opposed by narrative control. Metaphorization is mimicry of computer network.

9. TRANSCENDENTAL: unique is self-reflexive awareness of metaphysics of what is unknowable in opposition to what is knowable. Metaphorization is mimicry of spiritual enlightenment. In Kant it is transcendental logic and aesthetics. The prior eight properties are in interrelationship, including the Polypi dialogism of dialogisms of polyphonic, stylistic, chronotopic, and architectonic dialogism. Emergent story has not escaped narrative prison. Narrative police are trying to arrest emergent story, as always.