THEORY Grand Phooph: Being is unstable. Why? Turbulence Change, people, body/mind Thrownness Being is Miracle, Mystery, Passion, Finite, Surprise Vasts Radical presence Primary affects: delight, awe, alarm Nothingness Notwaves The Five Beholds No center, rest, repetition, outside, or unity Natural Acts of Existence: to fulfill the senses The Strong Force Formation of World Separation, centeredness, stasis I, etherium, thth, inging, object, GAN The Present Moment The Three Jests Prime discrepancy and bandits p’,h’, t’, x’ Dada’s Jest Power Principle The Injunctions Gate Theory Holes: Nooks, Crannies, Pores Choice/freedom On Becoming a Person Disclaimer- outrageous/dvt doesn’t make you a good person, provides you with opportunity to be one. Existential confidence Deal with instability, thrownness, nothingness To know that one exists >Awareness of the Strong Force That representations are not the same as things themselves Courage to Choose (without guarantee of consequences) To make legitimate choices Express oneself Restrain harm to others Follow legitimate authority To put choice into action Collapse wave (possibility) function Embodied “I” Commitment?? To own one’s choices To make public To be Present to the Other (showing up) Being a part of a whole (relationship, group, humanity) DvT: Countering Alienation From self, others, world METHOD >SUMMARY MECHANISMS OF ACTION: Not to achieve right actioin, but to remove obstacles to the awareness of your freedom etc. The rest is up to you. 1.Appreciating the Prime Discrepancy. (acting as if things were true.) Acting imaginatively under truthful circumstances Providing Space to Express Unfulfilled Needs Not taking self so seriously 2.Lowering Fear of Instability. (change, people, s/o split) Existential confidence Taking risks rather than promising safety Entangling- bungee jumping here? Fictional Force 3.Dimensionalizing Experience Decentering/perspectives, FOR Creating pathways around conflict 4.Practicing Choices Courage to choose, enact, and own Legitimate action Motion^action as revelation of choice (wave function collapse) SETTINGS. (in order to accomplish the above,) 1.The playspace Conditions of playspace: mutuality, discrepancy, reversibility, restraint from harm/self-interest 2.Individual/group formats 3.Conditions of practice 4.Subjecting the conditions of the playspace to the conditions of the playspace THE PLAYOR’S METHOD 1.Demeanor of the Playor 2.Working in the Present Moment 3.Working through the Recursive Cycle The Details √4.Following the Player’s Behaviors Examples 5.Main Forms of Playor Expressions: Approaching Miami Varielating Mirroring, faithful, emergent, divergent Meta Commentary THN, Suspending, Action Interpretation Choosing Differently Wrongwaying, Jump Frame, Renaming Being Present for zo! Broken Toy