ABSTRACT

An antenarrative is a pack animal, always a part of a moving, shifting, changing assemblage. It is the movement, its iterative rhythm and intraplay with context, that gives it force and agency. As a genre of storytelling, antenarrative is more like a ‘wave’ and less like ‘narrative,’ which is more like a ‘particle,’ something stable, and stackable. It is just such an antenarrative assemblage and wave effect that shaped the economic landscape and its field of possibilities when ‘toxic’ became associated with ‘assets.’