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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Ricky, Nick, Chen, Chenby, Mike, Alex, Rachel, through Ricky's recommendation, Ann, Kwan and Yuka from about 4.30: I talked too much but explained the notion of gesture, its double constraint, the one I impose by asking you to put the actor's gesture who leads the

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

Finding myself writing about character in the journal I'm keeping on Minus Theatre workshops, it is in respect of character, of the curve of character, that this short note is the asymptote. I read Jess Walter's novel So Far Gone, 2025, and requested the other three

AI resource: schematic based on Minus workshop 7, part 1

AI resource: schematic based on Minus workshop 7, part 1

1. Gesture and embodied perception Gesture opens perception to duration: it is naturalistic but not representational, outside the closure of recognition. It embodies an immediacy that resists capture. This perceptual openness is already political because it interrupts habits of thought and the symbolic systems that seek stability. 2. Culture as

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

The following was written when I was without power and what goes by the term connectivity—without power I had no easy access to water but could at least heat what I carried in pots from the smaller of our two tanks that collect rainwater from the roof—because a

Does global data reflect a war on the imagination?

Does global data reflect a war on the imagination?

before it answers that, Is such a question petty in this new age of genocide? Chat GPT 5 answers 12.09.2025: That is not a petty question—it cuts to the heart of how different forms of violence are related. On the surface, genocide and the erosion of cultural

Minus workshop 6, part 2: the power of being affected

Minus workshop 6, part 2: the power of being affected

is the power of affect more than that of affecting and being an agent of affect causing it. This I was thinking on my way to the workshop at Ellen Melville Centre. The thought grew from the perspective of David Lapoujade, in his small book Powers of Time, 2018 translated

Minus workshop 6, part 1: meaning

Minus workshop 6, part 1: meaning

In the workshop I did recently, run by author of Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World, 2018, Jess Berentson-Shaw for those who work in libraries (there is no guarantee anymore they are librarians) about countering false information, certain statements were made I wrote down that are the