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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Minus workshop 5, part 1: what for therapy is the cause for theatre is the effect

Minus workshop 5, part 1: what for therapy is the cause for theatre is the effect

Minus Theatre at AUT was all about the encounter. It went from Deleuze to Lingis: in the first is the shock of the encounter which breaks us out of habit, the event; in the second is the imperative of acknowledging the elements supporting us presupposed by the encounter. They are,

Minus workshop 4, part 2: embodying emotion

Minus workshop 4, part 2: embodying emotion

I picked up God and Sex, a novel by Jon Raymond. The first lines say that for a reader a book, although zigzagging down the page, presents a straight line from end to end, but that for a writer it is a sphere. Although infinitely correctable it comes to its

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Prompted to consider Minus workshop 4, part 1: embodying emotion a working out in practice of the themes of actual perception in duration, emotional association and virtual imagination, against habits of recognition, conditioned response and representation (theatre, according to Peter Hallward, being the art of representation par excellence) ChatGPT 5

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

Marc Anton recently posted on facebook that most of its users couldn't care less what is said in criticism of AI such that he doubts any amount of technical or philosophical demystification is going to change perception or behaviour. In "Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just

Minus workshop 4, part 1: embodying emotion

Minus workshop 4, part 1: embodying emotion

* In theatre we do the opposite of how emotions are formed: we embody emotions * Emotions form by the association of physical, social or cultural—including aesthetic and intellectual—actions with the feelings that we have words for, like pain, happiness, nostalgia, grief, anger, love and hate. Bergson says (again with

Minus workshop 3 at EMC, or...

Minus workshop 3 at EMC, or...

Chenby and I when we went upstairs to the auditorium at the Ellen Melville Centre where we conduct the workshops were met by Potato and Cindy as last week, now joined by Nancy, Jung a third, whose name escapes me, the ladies from the Chinese Dance Group which uses the

resource 20.08.2025

resource 20.08.2025

[ChatGPT 5 on]... the Outside Light piece titled “We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought.” Here's a concise assessment of how it intersects with our philosophical conversation—especially around perception, imagination, and AI governmentality: Assessment & Integration