Multiple Selves Research Articles

Exploring the Textual and Tactile Weave of Academic Subjectivities:

Within the neoliberal university, academics become positioned around market-driven managerialist ideologies and the techniques enacting those principles. Audit cultures actively and continuously measure and shape academic subjectivities defined by a specific kind of success. The market-driven individualistic model can conflict with ethical ideals and longings for self-expression, while the mismatch between institutional goals and personal values creates an academic self that is pulled in conflicting directions. We become subjects of the discourse but we can limit our subjectivity and develop authentic insight. In this paper, we engage in a process of embodied making. We create textual and tactile self-portraits as a way of pushing back at neoliberal subjectivities, and to make visible our multiple selves. Although we recognize that we are always a part of what we resist, we use making as a way to create micro-resistances for our own renewal. Our self-portrait assemblages and stories are ambiguous and fluid but capture a view of selves hidden beneath the professional self. We are reminded that we are creative beings, and that there is room within neoliberalism to open intentional spaces. We may not always succeed in seeing our contradictory identities, yet we are able to occasionally capture glimpses of our shifting selves.

The behavioral economics of dynamically inconsistent behavior: a critical assessment

Preferences often change—even in short time intervals—due to either the mere passage of time (present-biased preferences) or changes in visceral or environmental conditions (state-dependent preferences). On the basis of empirical findings concerning state-dependent preferences, we critically discuss the “Aristotelian” view of unitary decision makers in economics. We illustrate that the conceptualization of preferences as “present-biased” as opposed to “state-dependent” has very different normative implications for which preferences should be considered “rational.” Empirically, however, the two concepts are very difficult to distinguish. The economist can justify any paternalistic intervention if she can conceptualize changing preferences so flexibly, and she can easily become a benevolent despot. We therefore urge for a more careful “Heraclitean” view of decision-making that accepts that a person may consist of multiple selves.

Having multiple selves helps learning agents explore and adapt in complex changing worlds

Satisfying a variety of conflicting needs in a changing environment is a fundamental challenge for any adaptive agent. Here, we show that designing an agent in a modular fashion as a collection of subagents, each dedicated to a separate need, powerfully enhanced the agent's capacity to satisfy its overall needs. We used the formalism of deep reinforcement learning to investigate a biologically relevant multiobjective task: continually maintaining homeostasis of a set of physiologic variables. We then conducted simulations in a variety of environments and compared how modular agents performed relative to standard monolithic agents (i.e., agents that aimed to satisfy all needs in an integrated manner using a single aggregate measure of success). Simulations revealed that modular agents a) exhibited a form of exploration that was intrinsic and emergent rather than extrinsically imposed; b) were robust to changes in nonstationary environments, and c) scaled gracefully in their ability to maintain homeostasis as the number of conflicting objectives increased. Supporting analysis suggested that the robustness to changing environments and increasing numbers of needs were due to intrinsic exploration and efficiency of representation afforded by the modular architecture. These results suggest that the normative principles by which agents have adapted to complex changing environments may also explain why humans have long been described as consisting of "multiple selves."

Professional Identity Construction in Becoming an NNEST

This study investigated the professional identity construction of NNESTs (Non-native English-speaking teachers) in Taiwan. The research paradigm was rooted in poststructuralism, which emphasizes subjectivity and exhibits the multiple, unstable, and non-linear properties of identity inquiry. Participants comprised two male and two female in-service English teachers from public and private senior high schools, whose teaching experience ranged from 10 to 15 years. The findings were as follows: in constructing their professional identity, NNESTs resorted to the integration of multiple selves, interpretation and reinterpretation, social negotiation, and agency operation. Moreover, various factors were found to influence the development of NNESTs’ professional identity. The internal factors were personal belief, prior experience, emotion and disposition, teaching efficacy, instrumental goal, non-native status, and motivation, whereas the external factors were student attitude, professional community, subject attributes, educational policies, and perceived expectation. The study not only illuminates NNESTs’ professional identity development but also contributes with theoretical and pedagogical implications.

Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires

The human mind is a mosaic composed of multiple selves with conflicting desires. How can coherent actions emerge from such conflicts? Classical desire theory argues that rational action depends on maximizing the expected utilities evaluated by all desires. In contrast, intention theory suggests that humans regulate conflicting desires with an intentional commitment that constrains action planning towards a fixed goal. Here, we designed a series of 2D navigation games in which participants were instructed to navigate to two equally desirable destinations. We focused on the critical moments in navigation to test whether humans spontaneously commit to an intention and take actions that would be qualitatively different from those of a purely desire-driven agent. Across four experiments, we found three distinctive signatures of intentional commitment that only exist in human actions: “goal perseverance” as the persistent pursuit of an original intention despite unexpected drift making the intention suboptimal; “self-binding” as the proactive binding of oneself to a committed future by avoiding a path that could lead to many futures; and “temporal leap” as the commitment to a distant future even before reaching the proximal one. These results suggest that humans spontaneously form an intention with a committed plan to quarantine conflicting desires from actions, supporting intention as a distinctive mental state beyond desire. Additionally, our findings shed light on the possible functions of intention, such as reducing computational load and making one's actions more predictable in the eyes of a third-party observer.

A quantitative analysis of adolescent appearance anxiety in the pseudo-environment of online media based on uses and gratification theory

With the advancement of economic level and science and technology, electronic products are flooding the lives of teenagers. While many people are willing to show themselves on social media, they can freely experiment with different ways to present themselves on the Internet, which could be thought of as a kind of social laboratory. The objective of this article is to analyze whether self-expression will bring satisfaction or anxiety to people’s lives. This article uses self-presentation(Ideal self, Multiple selves, Consistent self, Online presentation preference) as an independent variable, life satisfaction and appearance anxiety as dependent variables. This paper is based on use and satisfaction theory and investigates self-presentation based on prior beliefs utilizing the method of a questionnaire survey which includes a primary focus on people’s degree of satisfaction or anxiety. The final sample included 419 individuals in Weibo, the percentage of female participants is 70.74%, while the proportion of the male participants is 29.26%. According to the findings, appearance anxiety may be more severe when a person is more willing to exhibit themselves on online social media. Additionally, the teens' life satisfaction increased with their willingness to present themselves on online social media.

‘We Talked about Solitude’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and Affective Bonding

‘We Talked about Solitude’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and Affective Bonding

Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people

This article uses Feminist New Materialist theoretical perspectives on time and temporality to critically explore the social work practice of life story work, designed to help children who are or have been in public care, or are adopted, assemble a coherent narrative of their care journey, adverse experiences and identity. Interview data presented here was produced with 17 participants (foster carers, adoptive parents and social work professionals in care or adoption teams) who were part of a project which sought to understand how aspects of life story work could be transformed into everyday care conversations between children and the adults who care for them (see www.difficultconversations.info ). Our analysis highlights the way participants understood and constructed temporal elements of children’s experiences and identities: their pasts, presents and futures, in the context of having conversations about care with them. Through the discussion, we indicate a need to loosen the configuration of children’s life stories and identities as ‘pre-care’ and ‘post-care’, and instead move toward an acceptance of children’s multiple selves and multiple important others as existing across time.

The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume

Reviewed by: The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume Fiona Cox The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960. By Kathryn Hume. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. xii+192 pp. £85 (pbk £28.99). ISBN 978–1–5013–5987–3 (pbk 978–1–5013–7824–9). Kathryn Hume opens the volume by asking: 'Why should contemporary Anglophone writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, from Pharaonic Egypt, from the Viking north, from Africa's west coast, and from Hebrew and Christian traditions?' (p. i). This is, of course, a big question eliciting a range of responses, and the wide, inclusive sweep of mythologies indicates the vast scope of this volume, a breadth that is all the more striking since the book is relatively short. Hume's extraordinarily wide-ranging expertise and reading are evidenced throughout the volume as we move from Mailer to Acker to Vonnegut, Pullman, and Calvino (the one non-Anglophone writer), and many more. The dizzying array of primary sources is indicated in the chapter titles—for example, the final chapter, Chapter 6, is entitled 'The Contemporary Functions of Myth as Artistic Tool: Pynchon, Arthurian stories, Faber, Pullman, Morrow, Ducornet, Marcus, Atwood, Vonnegut, Naylor, Morrison, Silko, Östergren, Winterson, Grossman, Rucker'. This is an astonishing range of writers and subjects to cover in just 28 pages. Previous chapters take as their focus 'Multiple Selves and Egyptian Mythology', 'Mythological Worlds and Death', 'Orpheus and Eurydice: Variations on a Theme', 'Invented Myth: The Problem of Power', and 'Situational Myth: Posthuman Metamorphoses'. All promise a wide selection of sources enriching the discussion. Hume writes well and engagingly and I read the book with pleasure and profit. I learnt a great deal and was introduced to a range of authors whose works I have not yet considered. I particularly enjoyed the nuanced discussion of Janette Turner Hospital's Orpheus Lost. The presentation of Neil Gaiman's work and thought was also especially suggestive and persuasive. There is a particular emphasis in the volume on dystopian fiction, which has been understudied to date, at least in the area of classical reception. The virtues of the volume are, however, directly tied to [End Page 241] what might be perceived as its shortcomings. There were many times when I would greatly have welcomed far more detailed discussion of an author or a work, but found myself tantalized with a brief analysis before the discussion moved on to the next book or the next author. Since so many authors and texts are covered there is a lot of introductory discussion, which sometimes comes at the cost of more probing analysis. I also think that much of the exposition could have been enriched by closer engagement with other scholarly works within the field. Certainly there has been much work on contemporary literature and classical reception which is absent from the Bibliography and which could have added texture to the discussion of authors such as Winterson, Byatt, and Morrison. I am thinking particularly of studies such as Tessa Roynon, The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Judith Fletcher, Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). I am aware, however, that a more focused and substantial engagement of selected authors would have reduced the extraordinary scope of this volume, and that would have been to its detriment. I closed the book wishing that there was much more, but grateful for the pleasure of being introduced to so much fresh material. This is a book that will open the eyes of any reader to unfamiliar worlds and undiscovered texts and which makes a genuine contribution to the expanding field of engagements with, and rewritings of, classical Greek and Roman myths in fiction of the last sixty years. Fiona Cox University of Exeter Copyright © 2023 Modern Humanities Research Association

Marcel Proust: portrait d'un jeune écrivain en philosophe by Claudio Rozzoni

Reviewed by: Marcel Proust: portrait d'un jeune écrivain en philosophe by Claudio Rozzoni Jennifer Rushworth Marcel Proust: portrait d'un jeune écrivain en philosophe. By Claudio Rozzoni. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 2016. 251 pp. €31. ISBN 978–2–8124–4720–4. This book is an interesting account of the early philosophical formation of Marcel Proust. Claudio Rozzoni's study is organized chronologically, from Proust's childhood up until early adulthood. It deliberately stops short of Proust's work on John Ruskin, but makes frequent reference to A la recherche du temps perdu since its interest lies in the development and prefiguration of Proust's philosophical ideas. The first part consists of a short section on Proust's parents and a much longer section on his school education. Rozzoni comments especially on Proust's father's career as having inspired Proust's use of medical metaphors and terminology and on his mother as having provided exposure to literature and languages as well as to habits of humour and letter-writing. Rozzoni emphasizes the importance for Proust of his philosophy teacher Alphonse Darlu, unearthing new materials while also drawing explicitly on the earlier studies of André Ferré, Les Années de collège de Marcel Proust (Paris: Gallimard, 1959), and Henri Bonnet, Alphonse Darlu (1894–1921): le maître de philosophie de Marcel Proust (Paris: Nizet, 1961). Rozzoni's analysis dwells especially on Darlu's contribution to journals such as the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale founded in 1893 by lycée friends of Proust, while acknowledging both the paucity of written evidence of Darlu's thinking and Proust's eventual 'renversement' (a term that recurs, but see e.g. p. 205) of Darlu's views on truth and morality. The second part takes us into Proust's post-school years, initially with a focus on his 'année sabbatique' (p. 148) in military training, his entry into society and first writings about society, and his interactions with his cousin by marriage Henri Bergson. Continuing with the focus on Proust's education, Rozzoni also considers his university studies, first in law and then in literature and philosophy, the latter including formative lessons in aesthetics from Gabriel Séailles. It is a shame that we do not have access to material from Proust's university years comparable to his school essays and notes, on which Rozzoni earlier draws so fruitfully. Proust's obtaining of the 'licence en lettres et philosophie' on 27 March 1895 is the book's purported endpoint. That said, as noted, Rozzoni makes frequent connections with Proust's eventual novel, especially with an eye to aspects which can be said (in a typical phrase) to 'anticipe[r] le chef-d'œuvre proustien à venir' (p. 59). The book and its reading of Proust are thus strongly teleological, and the 'jeune écrivain' of the title can at times feel overshadowed by discussion of the later novel. Nonetheless, contemporary theories of memory and of the self, or multiple selves, are interestingly reviewed in this light, especially in the middle section of the second part, on 'Le milieu psychologique' (pp. 163–203). Rozzoni concurs with Luc Fraisse about the eclecticism of Proust's philosophical sources (see especially Fraisse, L'Éclectisme philosophique de Marcel Proust (Paris: PUPS, 2013)), while emphasizing what is idiosyncratic about Proust's theory of memory in particular. Alongside its historical, biographical approach, the book is also characterized by a sustained dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, and while fascinating and meticulously explored, this dialogue can likewise at times feel like a distraction from the book's [End Page 246] avowed focus. At the end of the Prologue Rozzoni explains that 'Une première version de ce texte a paru en italien'—that is, I segni del giovane Proust: per un ritratto filosofico del futuro autore della 'Recherche' (Milan: AlboVersorio, 2009)—and he thanks 'Adeline Thulard et Pietro Allia pour leur traduction du texte en français' (p. 20). It seems important to acknowledge the work of Rozzoni's translators here, too, in bringing this useful and wide-ranging work to new readers. Jennifer Rushworth University College London Copyright © 2023 Modern Humanities Research Association

Indicators for continuance of childhood gender dysphoria into adulthood: A critical interpretive synthesis of literature (2000–2020)

Introduction: Health professionals are unable to predict whether gender nonconforming distress or manifestations will continue after puberty. They also hold varied ideologies about gender. Information about these indicators lacks integration to benefit decision-making about how to intervene in childhood gender dysphoria. Aims: The aim of this review was to synthesize the literature on early indicators that anticipate the continuity of childhood gender dysphoria following puberty. A secondary aim, because of the ideological debates that underpin clinical decisions in transgender health care, was to critically interpret that literature. Methods: A critical interpretive synthesis was selected to integrate and offer a critical appraisal of literature (n=20). Results: A synthesizing argument was developed from four constructs: the intensity of gender dysphoric feelings, the child’s assertion of their gender identity, the stability of gender identity, and gender is a composite of multiple selves. Conclusions: The framing of experts’ arguments fed into presumed stability of gender identity. No single homogenous indicator can be postulated, but a compartmentalizing process is needed to understand the experiential world of a child’s gender nonconformity so that one concept (dysphoria about gender identity) can be teased apart from other investments of gender, body, and sexuality. Our constructs of the intensity of feelings and gender as a composite of multiple selves were found to challenge DSM-5 criteria. Understanding that multiple transitions may occur can help a child locate a gendered positioning in which they are comfortable. This could enable health practitioners offer affirmative care while remaining cautious about using medical treatments that cannot be reversed. The search for indicators itself, however, can be considered a historical moment, given the developments in the field in the 2 years after this review was conducted.

The self in selfies-Conceptualizing the selfie-coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements.

This article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self-coordination. Building on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of coordinating with the self in formats that are recognizable for others. This framework allows approaching the self as an act of coordination, simultaneously shaped by, and equipped to subvert the cultural conditions of how we ought to be. As these conditions are increasingly enforced and negotiated in the socio-technological arrangements of digital platforms, the article proposes an approach for making sense of selfies as key contemporary tools of self-making. Based on ethnographic work among activists with marginalizing experiences, I ask how the self is coordinated in the activists' selfies. I identify four ways of coordinating with the self in selfies: the self in a plan, the self in exploration, the affirmed self, and the self as public critique. The article contributes to our understanding on how practices of self-making evolve in an increasingly visual-digital society, and provides an approach for conceptualising the self as plural. By approaching the selfie as different formats of relating to the self, the framework proposed accounts for the possibility of multiple selves now afforded by digital technologies and enables analysing their politicizing potential.

Jacques Berlinerblau. The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography

Jacques Berlinerblau. <i>The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography</i>

Stewards of the language: liminality and transnational sovereignty

AbstractIn this article we introduce the language practices of a group of Indigenous Maya students at an elementary school in northern California. We discuss how liminal experience in migration foregrounds an awareness of becoming and embodying multiple selves and of using multiple languages across the home, school, and community. Through an analysis of interview data from a three and a half-year ethnographic project at the school, we focus on two students’ strategies for learning and stewarding their Indigenous language. Their use and awareness of language offer examples of Indigenous resurgence and futurity as the young generation reclaims language in acts of transnational sovereignty. We argue that these students’ translanguaging practices represent their everyday actions as stewards of the language, and that in the process of learning their Indigenous language, these students enact forms of transnational sovereignty.

Listening as Methodological Resistance: Hearing Voices at the Margins of Educational Leadership

The Listening Guide method was founded in opposition to other forms of interview coding which either put data into predetermined and/or binary categories. Feminist psychologists believed that other methods of qualitative research disappeared the undertheorized portions of subjects’ narratives. This method does not seek to only hear voices of queer or gender non-conforming educational leaders, but also to hear the contradictions, complexities and multiple voices of cisgendered men and women and enable researchers to hear that a binary construction of gender is not the place where most school leaders live. The Listening Guide is an act of resistance, forcing research away from calcifying experience into static categories. The Listening Guide also acknowledges that multiplicity of self is authentic. Individuals tend to speak in more than one voice at a given time, depending on their context and the culture in which they exist. One can think of this as being like a borderland where different pieces of our identity converge, some taking on greater importance based on context. Gender, race, and sexual identities exist in relationship to one another within everyone, and the contextual nature of how these identities cause us to behave or influence how we are perceived can be heard using this method. The messiness of identity is allowed to come to the surface, resisting binaries and hierarchy in categorization. Listening meets at the intersection of method and praxis, and voice enables researchers to hear the stories at the margins of educational leadership.

So-Fire-Town: The representations of a translucent urban Black femininity in the Black press through the signatures of Dolly Rathebe in the 1950s

abstract This focus reads the multiple selves of Dolly Rathebe as represented in popular cultural discourse, particularly in Drum magazine during the 1950s. Black translucent femininity is a conceptual tool, I argue, with opacity and obscurity; afforded is the opportunity to engage Dolly Rathebe and her various representations with complexity, elasticity and multiplicity. This conception of translucent Black femininities allows room for reckoning with selves that would ordinarily not be considered complex and contradictory. I analyse the representations of Rathebe as situated within the popular cultural discourse structured by a white capitalist and heteropatriarchal prism contoured by Black masculinity. I explore pseudonymity as a tool of (re)creating a self and the layered selves of Dolly Rathebe. The self-fashioning of Rathebe displayed in various representations opens the possibility of depicting layered selves, and I intend to show the elasticity of the figure of Rathebe by reading these representations alongside each other. In this way I illustrate the layered and multiple selves that stretch from the primary self of Rathebe – particularly the self-fashioning of the figure of the romantic advice column ‘Dear Dolly’ which appeared in Drum. It is also in the navigation of the various traces of the name Dolly, derivative of the name Dorothy, that I expand on the multiplicity and translucence of urban Black femininity represented by Dolly Rathebe. This informs expansion from singular and flat stereotypical representations to multiple and translucent representations, thus illustrating the elasticity of urban Black femininity as depicted in popular cultural discourse.

An Ecocentric Reconsideration of Bakhtin’s Grotesque Realism in Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989), which is regarded as one of the best examples in the postmodern fiction, offers a new space for re-considering genders, identities and environmental problems by effacing the boundaries of story/history, self/other, male/female, reality/fantasy, material/immaterial, nature/culture, natural/unnatural, and human/nonhuman. Questioning the monologic discourses of anthropocentrism and androcentrism, the novel deals with social restrictions, political upheavals, religious conflicts, authoritative inequalities, gender issues, and environmental destruction in multiple contexts. Winterson’s novel presents the voice, subjectivity and agency of the monstrous, the most feared, the ignored, the muted and the oppressed, including all human beings regardless of their gender and nonhuman life forms. To achieve this aim, the author retells some events in English history in a detailed way through the voices and perspectives of larger-than-life characters. In doing so, Winterson seeks to deconstruct the officialdom, authoritarian power relations, political hierarchies and social inequalities. She also attempts to eliminate the patriarchal and anthropocentric biases and norms for ecological justice. In this sense, the novel suggests a carnivalesque space with a multiplicity of self and voice and offers a dialogic world with infinite possible ways of existence, fluidity and interdependence of beings. Within this framework, this article seeks to explore Sexing the Cherry in the light of Bakhtinian grotesque realism within the ecocentric view to discuss the effects of the authoritarian, hierarchical and patriarchal attitudes of the human on human and nonhuman communities. In her novel, the author tries to revive the agency of the nonhuman to oppose Cartesian binary oppositions that keep humans away from their physical environment and lead to an anthropocentric tendency that reduces both nature and all its nonhuman inhabitants to objects. Therefore, the article aims to show grotesque responses and challenges demonstrated by the main characters to the environmental problems depicted in the novel. Consequently, Winterson, in accordance with Bakhtin’s grotesque realism, imagines a world of optimism and equality and focuses on the union and harmony of the human with the nonhuman.

Writing with Foucault: openings to transformational knowledge practices in and beyond the classroom

ABSTRACT This article engages questions of authority and authorship in the discipline and the IR classroom, driven by a search for affirmative horizons within critical scholarship and academic practice. Prompted by a series of ‘failures’ attached to the social and disciplinary performance of ‘expertise’ in the context of violent conflict, I explore the practice of writing as it unfolds from Michel Foucault’s lesser cited essays and interviews as a generative, creative resource. I follow Foucault in breaking down the normalised perceptions of the ‘author function,’ revealing writing as an act that diagnoses, discovers, and potentially transforms writer, reader and the social structures that the writing addresses. Foucault’s experimental ethos brings to light the complex life worlds of sense-making through the vehicle of writing. It also invites us to embrace the transgenerational heritage that quietly structures our relationships to knowledge together with the multiple selves that arise and are co-present in the text. I enter such processes of negotiation and transgression in Foucault’s work and my own writing through a series of vignettes, which aim to actualise the ‘method’ these gestures may harbour for making ‘uncommon sense’ and re-inhabiting research and pedagogical practice as continuous, self-reflexive and self-authori(zi)ng journeys.

Self-interpellation in narratives about craving: Multiple and unitary selves.

The concept of addiction seeks to explain why people act contrary to their own best interest. At the centre stage of addiction discourse is craving, conceptualised as a strong urge to use substances. This article analyses how talk therapies such as relapse prevention and self-help groups shape identity constructions and understandings of craving among clients. Drawing upon interviews with individuals who have engaged in talk therapies in Sweden, we analyse how craving is made up through 'self-interpellation', that is, personal narratives about past, present or future thoughts, feelings and actions. The main 'self-interpellation' included multiple selves, where craving was elided by the true self and only felt by the inauthentic self. Less dominant were narratives which drew on a unitary self that remained stable over time and had to fight craving. The notion of multiple selves appeared as a master narrative that the participants were positioned by in their identity constructions. We conclude that this multiplicity seems ontologically demanding for people who try to recover from substance use problems. A demystification of craving, in which neither substance effects nor malfunctioning brains are blamed for seemingly irrational thoughts and actions, may reduce the stigmatisation of those who have developed habitual substance use.

Imagining the name of the rose with Deleuze: organizational and self world-making on the screen

ABSTRACT In this research, the process of world-making at stake in movie direction and movie images is explored. Following Deleuze and Bergson, I investigate how the process of designing and experimenting with images contributes to a prelinguistic world-making process from which multiple selves can happen. With and from an autoethnography of my experience of the movie The Name of the Rose, I develop a cinematographic language that can describe organizing actions in coherence with an ontology of becoming. By watching and rewatching the movie and exploring my memory of its images, I identify three modalities of visual and sound organizing at the heart of processual world-making. As visual and sonic events lived and relived, these modalities contribute to the happening of multiple pasts, presents and futures selves interwoven with organizational world-making.