Territory as a Narrative
International audience ; We develop two issues: 1. a territorial assemblage is a narrative which organizes in a complex hypernetwork (Johnson) heterogeneous elements (characters, contexts, plots, tools, discourses…) 2. as a new kind of artifact, it is then necessary to imagine a political mode of " being together " in a world-like-assemblages. A territory, a city, an area are, literally, a " story being done " , it is an ongoing process, a performative (Austin). And as Mac Intyres affirms it (After the virtue, 1981), " the stories must be lived before being told ". The narrative is then the making of the territory. We propose then five models of the being together in this assemblage: an apolitical mode of innovation (Bergson, Deleuze, Serres), a mode of recognition (Honneth), a mode of self-organisation (Guattari, Negri), a cybernetic mode (Smart City) and a mode of diplomacy (Latour). We will develop two ideas in this paper: a territorial assemblage is a narrative, it connects very heterogeneous ingredients. But as such, it is possible to live in it only if we are able to imagine a political mode of " being together " in a world-like-assemblages. First we try to develop our first claim: a territorial assemblage is a narrative which organizes heterogeneous entities (characters, context, plot, tools, discourses…) in a kind of complex hypernetwork.