ABSTRACT
This chapter turns towards conceptualizing storymaking. This is positioned in relation to Arendt’s map of the human condition that consisted of the activities of labor, work, and action as well as the notion of natality. I develop storymaking through Bennett’s term vital materialism. It allows escaping the human-centeredness of Arendt’s map and emphasizes how multiple human agencies configure stories in collaboration. Vital materialism multiplies the world with the consequence that the existential condition of natality seems to characterize all the agencies of this world. Storymaking entails the view of being part of nature in such a way that it embodies all the agencies in the world and are the world in their unique variations and compositions. Concretely, storymaking is a philosophy of life where the aesthetics of living and making is central. Through applying concepts from Deleuze and Guattari, it is discussed how stories live through multiple relations and connections, how they move from the ground of multiple actor-networks, and how stories are actualizations that also embody multiple undisclosed memories.
