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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

putting oneself on the line and at risk writing, thinking, &, having spread the tablecloth, standing up on it

Deleuze’s work on literature … has nothing to do with textual criticism or commentary, deconstructive or otherwise, since what matters is only what can be created, experimented or lived through the text, on the assumption that ‘a text is nothing but a cog in a larger extra-textual practice’ (DI

then Gilles Deleuze gave up depths in favour of a sort of transversality and big tablecloth

The sharks remain as silent as a woman who’s trying to hide her thoughts in order to spare your feelings. – Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana, p. 312

AIP

The audience is also in performance. OR The performance is also of an audience. & We are you. … – “The Yellow T Shirt” by Paul Haggith Gusanos – worms. Or counter-revolutionaries. Or revolutionaries. Or recidivists. Or those accused of recidivism. Without it having been proven. Suspected. Suspects. Suspected of negative feelings.

cultural politics are redundant exercises in the economics of public life

The chief thing for us to do is to start creating real alternatives in popular theatre to the community theatres and the shopping centres which reflect, not the spiritual power, but the moral stupour of our cultural explosion. I am thinking of regional centres, widely recruited audiences, in collaboration with

a figure, or a ‘figural character,’ looks over the horizon

before-the-scenes notes for study for a passion/telling on the telling: towards a machinic meez

Mise for study requires a shaker, an automated system to deliver a continuous shower of ash onto the stage, increasing in density as the piece proceeds. Possibly a machine driven by belts to link a quiet electric motor to an offset wheel, connecting, in turn, to a fine mesh cage

THE BEAN