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Minus Theatre Riyadh: a visionary project seeking expressions of interest

Minus Theatre Riyadh: a visionary project seeking expressions of interest

The concept for this visionary architectural project is laid out below. Please respond with expressions of interest by email here. Integrated Architectural Concept for the Minus Theatre (Riyadh) Based on Ando’s Minamidera → Lalibela’s St. George → Yazd Wind-Catchers (with the Minus Theatre philosophical requirements fully preserved)* 1. Conceptual Core:

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⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

⑥ indirect proof of the unity of the executive functions we associate with the subject, ego or self

I'm going to start with a long quote from Bergson but only pick out one or two threads to follow briefly: [from Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer's translation, Zone Books, NY, 1991. Online edition, at p.56, may differ.] This is to say that

⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

⓪ The proof of the infinity of attributes

⑤ virtual images

⑤ virtual images

④ The Region of Images

⊕︎The "Region of Images"

⊕︎The "Region of Images"

③ when the images brought to mind by memory are so real as to displace the reality this tells us images are not stored or processed in the brain

③ when the images brought to mind by memory are so real as to displace the reality this tells us images are not stored or processed in the brain

② motor-diagramme is the movement of consciousness

② motor-diagramme is the movement of consciousness

theory

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time CINEMATIC TIME In their introduction to Henri Bergson: Key Writings, Bloomsbury 2021, John Ó Maoilearca and Keith Ansell Pearson offer in answer to Bergson’s solution to Zeno’s paradoxes Bertrand Russell’s own: A cinematograph in which there are an infinite number

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

a tree imagines it's a tree

a tree imagines it's a tree

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

journal

A Unique Blend of Modernity and Strategic Location: daily life around home, الصحافة

A Unique Blend of Modernity and Strategic Location: daily life around home, الصحافة

As Sahafah, the 'l' elided with the hard 's' to follow, reading from right to left, so not 'al' as you might think, but 'as' as you might not. The 's,' in contrast to a Moon letter, in which case

المروج

المروج

ffff fashion x 2: Obaya Mall & Princess Souq

ffff fashion x 2: Obaya Mall & Princess Souq

dgs2026

dgs2026

John Collier crosses my path

John Collier crosses my path

بوليفارد وورلد

بوليفارد وورلد

in the library, in the hood, in the mall, in the park

in the library, in the hood, in the mall, in the park

poetry

Political Works

Political Works

works of mourning to write as if no story hangs to write as if no story hanged is is hanged to write as if the works of a better poet as Borges says if as if the works were not those of mourning or hanging over those there there was

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

art after genocide, part II

art after genocide, part II

Simon Bennett, director, writes in his valedictory for Tom Stoppard, recently deceased, He gave us some good shit to sink our teeth into. –⁠Facebook post, 30.11.2025 The New York Times obituary is equally a travesty: A voracious reader but otherwise remarkably undereducated ... He didn't go to

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: art after genocide

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 10

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 9

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6