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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
Simon Taylor 13 Sep 2025
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
Simon Taylor 07 Sep 2025
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
Simon Taylor 04 Sep 2025
*mpty w*rds by Mario Levrero, minor lit bits

*mpty w*rds 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
Simon Taylor 04 Sep 2025
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,
Simon Taylor 31 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 28 Aug 2025

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