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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

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

Minus workshop 5, part 2: the question for workshop 6, The world or what we do in it?

Minus workshop 5, part 2: the question for workshop 6, The world or what we do in it?

I've yet to reconcile meaning, shifting meanings, and emotion, emotion considered in terms of putting an emotion in the body. Other than: 1. go by way of association—the past, when associations are formed; 2. go by way of imagination—a virtual form (in the immediate future, a

*mpty w*rds by Mario Levrero, minor lit bits

mpty wrds by Mario Levrero, minor lit bits

November 25, 1990 There's a flow, a rhythm, a seemingly empty form; the discourse could end up addressing any topic, image, or idea. This indifference makes me suspicious. I suspect there are all kinds of things—too many—lurking behind the apparent emptiness. I've never found

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