He goes to find a sun lounger. “Can I have one that’s more pretentious?” Tomas asks an attendant. “Of course, Sir, but only on condition that you make yourself ridiculous.” — James Palumbo, Tomas, Quartet Books, London, 2009.

It seems that the Western powers are still driven by the colonizing impulse to discover, conquer, own, and possess everything, every society, every culture. The colonies have now been extended to the interior spaces, the “genetic codes” of life-forms from microbes and plants to animals, including humans. John Moore, a

A world is only constituted on condition of being inhabited by an umbilical point of deconstruction, of detotalization, of deterritorialization, starting from which a taking of subjective position is incarnated. – Guattari, The Schizo Chaosmosis (1991), in The Guattari Effect, 2011, p. 19 …do you see what you’ve been missing?

VMG is the acronym for Visit Me Genius, which is what, so far, after one workshop (the next tomorrow–come along!) I am calling Minus Theatre group’s next show, scheduled to have its public outing 26 June (come along!). It may change, the name, although this is what I