Seo, Heewon;
(2025)
Between De-narrativization and Story-Selling: From the Paradoxes of Self-narration to the Concept of Self-narrative Resistance.
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10.1007/s11245-025-10240-1.
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Abstract
Building on Hannah Arendt’s insights, storytelling is presented not merely as a literary form, but as a fundamental mode of human existence and meaning-making. However, as Yuval Harari and Byung-Chul Han suggest, contemporary digital culture has led to a crisis of narration through de-narrativization (the fragmentation of narratives into algorithmic data) and story-selling (the commodifcation of personal narratives). In response to this crisis, this paper proposes the concept of Self-Narrative Resistance, which examines how individuals actively challenge and reshape their own narratives against imposed structures. Rather than passively conforming to algorithm-driven representation and performative self-branding, individuals navigate and reconfgure their self-narratives as a mode of resistance. Finally, the paper turns to Donna Haraway’s fctional imagination as a way to transcend traditional master plots and rethink self-narration. Speculative modes of identity construction are further explored through fctional imagination, hybrid media, and AI-based refective interaction—enabling forms of self-narrative that move beyond normative narrative frames, toward fgures such as the chimera and the cyborg. By positioning Self-Narrative Resistance as an existential-phenomenological practice, the paper proposes a renewed understanding of self-narration—as a fundamental mode through which human beings critically engage with the world, move beyond internalized narrative structures, and create new meaning in life. In this light, self-narration becomes not only a gesture of surviving the digital present, but also a way of imagining the otherwise.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Between De-narrativization and Story-Selling: From the Paradoxes of Self-narration to the Concept of Self-narrative Resistance |
| Event: | International Conference on Philosophical Practice, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Location: | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Dates: | 11 Jun 2025 - 14 Jun 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11245-025-10240-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10240-1 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Self-Narration; Existential-Phenomenological Philosophy; De-narrativization; Storyselling; Self Narrative Resistance; Fictional Imagination |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211821 |
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