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Narrative and the gift of the future Corinne Squire Centre for Narrative Research

Explore the power of storytelling with the gift of the future. Discover how sharing our narratives shapes the world we inhabit and influences our responses to infinite appeals. Unveil the transformative potential of narrative capacity in self-narration and assuming responsibility for our actions. Delve into the irrecoverability of referents and the fictional direction narrative takes. Immerse yourself in the secrets that define us in a visual autobiographical journey in East London.

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Narrative and the gift of the future Corinne Squire Centre for Narrative Research

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  1. Narrative and the gift of the future Corinne Squire Centre for Narrative Research University of East London http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/index.htm http://www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk/

  2. Drucilla Cornell, Derrida: the gift of the future: the future is: an other already with us...the mark we leave on the world we share will be inseparable from those infinite appeals made to us and how we responded when we were called. Jacques Derrida, Taste for the Secret: A simple phrase takes its meaning from a given context, and already makes its appeal to another one in which it will be understood; but, of course, to be understood it has to transform the context in which it is inscribed. As a result, this appeal, this promise of the future, will necessarily open up the production of a new context, wherever it may happen. The future is not present, but there is an opening onto it; and because there is a future, a context is always open. What we call opening of the context is another name for what is still to come

  3. Judith Butler, Giving an account of oneself: Only in the face of (such) a query or attribution from an other - ‘Was it you?’’(who did this) –do any of us start to narrate ourselves, or find that, for urgent reasons, we must become self- narrating beings...narrative capacity constitutes a precondition for giving an account of oneself and assuming responsibility for one’s actions through that means. (11-12) The irrecoverability and foreclosure of the referent is the very condition of possibility for an account of myself, if the account is to take narrative form. The irrecoverability of the original referent does not destroy narrative; it produces it ‘in a fictional direction’, as Lacan would say (37)

  4. Jacques Derrida,Tastefor the secret: If a right to the secret is not maintained, we are in a totalitarian state... the autobiographical is the locus of the secret... the autobiographical genre is always overreached by the autobiographical itself

  5. You are here: Visual autobiographies in East London 4 workshops, interviews and an exhibition: 18 participants

  6. Workshops. exhibition

  7. M2

  8. F6

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