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on the dialogical nature of left-wing cant

The discourse of the Whigs is cloven like a devil’s hoof. – Neal Stephenson, The System of the World,Vol. III of The Baroque Cycle, Harper Perennial, New York, 2005, p. 203

The discourse of the Whigs is cloven like a devil’s hoof.

– Neal Stephenson, The System of the World,Vol. III of The Baroque Cycle, Harper Perennial, New York, 2005, p. 203

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

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

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

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