Two old friends have returned to school after an absence. A child who departed for kindergarten in June has come to visit in November, bringing a cherished story along with her. “The Story of La Luna” had been a vital more-than-human presence in our community during the time that the child attended our preschool. Some of us fondly remember the child and the story, while the child and story are entirely new to others, creating a complex entanglement of presences, absences, and late arrivals (Ringrose, Warfield & Zarabadi, 2019) in today’s school assemblage. The child/story make their way into the digital atelier where spacetimematterings (Barad, 2010) and material entanglements intra-act to produce the story anew. The child’s experiences at Japanese immersion school, the unexpected appearance of a unicorn-child, and a movie several children saw in the theater this weekend are among the known elements that have come to matter in today’s story event.
Dr. Angela Molloy Murphy 