La Guerre des esprits passe par la guerre des histoires
Source: https://notes.nitinpai.in/Concepts/Narrative+warfare
My thoughts on narratives
- Politics is essentially a contest for narrative dominance
- Deep reasons “To the extent that there are evolutionary reasons for people to create delusional narratives, human affairs will be trapped by them.”
- I think “we are all just prisoners here, of our own narratives”
- Facts matter less. “Numbers and narratives can shape each other: but in a contest between them, narratives are often more powerful than numbers.”
- ‘Soft power’ creates an enabling environment for information warfare; more than ‘power’, soft power is a channel may be useful to think of “Narrative Lines of Communication” or NLOC.
Notes from Ajit Maan’s “Narrative Warfare”
Reference
Maan, A., (2018). Narrative Warfare. United States: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- definition “A narrative is a strategic story. It is the telling of a story in a certain way for a certain purpose. The way is identification. The purpose is influence.”
- Maan distinguishes narrative warfare from information warfare by arguing that the former is about the meaning of information.
- I think we can fold narrative warfare within the broader meaning of information warfare as I do in Conceptualising Information Warfare. In my classification what she defines as narrative warfare is information warfare at the epistemological level.
- narrative warfare is a fight over meaning and identity
- ideas and narratives are different things: for instance, ISIS is not winning the battle for ideas, but their narrative is working
- ideas often inform narratives; but it is narratives that form our ideas
- narratives are about meaning, not truth.
- credibility, not truth, matters to how influential a narrative is
- narrator must be credible
- narrative must reflect the experiences of the audience
- we judge others’ narratives consciously and rationally only when they differ from our own; our own narratives are implicit and uncritically inherited.
- insight How to win a narrative conflict? Not by ‘defeating’ the adversary’s narrative
- “create a shared narrative that leaves identities of all parties intact, while putting forth an alternative to (undesirable) behaviors”
Related
My developing thinking on Conceptualising Information Warfare and what I think is The Fundamental Conundrum of Information Warfare
Some raw notes on Cognitive Security, Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict, Protecting Democracy in an Era of Cyber Information War by Joseph Nye, Russian perspectives on Information Warfare by Ofer Fridman and the The Gerasimov Doctrine
Au-dessus du champ de bataille
Le croyant 🙏 est en guerre contre l’idée que Dieu n’existe pas 😤 L’athée 🧪 est en guerre contre l’idée que Dieu existe 🤬 Chacun défend sa position avec ferveur… croyant que la paix viendra par la victoire. Mais celle ou celui qui comprend cela… qui voit le jeu sans y plonger… qui observe sans vouloir convaincre… 🧘♀️✨ se tient au-dessus du champ de bataille, en paix. Pas parce qu’elle a gagné, mais parce qu’elle a cessé de se battre. 💞♾️ Elle a vu que les deux camps sont faits d’idées, et que la vérité n’a pas besoin d’être défendue… Elle EST. — Erick Emmanuel Mbassi