ABSTRACT
Storytelling is an essential, yet still often underestimated, intermediary for (re)creating a connection between the political and the world-making projects of each individual citizen. In the context of creating spaces of possibility, storytelling is a key component in world building. Through narrative power analysis, the underlying story premises of five contemporary polititical stories – the Friedman inspired neoliberalism, the Bartleby story, the Marxist world revolution story, Tsing's Matsutake story and Haraway's Chthulucene story – is interpreted. The process of telling a comppetitive and compelling political story is understood as a key component in a competition that Jonah Sachs calls ‘story wars'. The chapter analyses the potential of these stories in terms of potential to fill the myth gap, their influence on narrative self-making, and their storytelling potential.
