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on performance

by jeffrey gormly

 

Can we rely on an actual distinction between representation and performance?]

Representation is the essence of the social contract
[Where rhetoric is a lubricating fluid in a representational format, what corresponding medium is there for a performance of myself?]
a Person, is the same that an Actor is, both on the Stage and in conversation; and to personate is to Act, or Represent himselfe
[Power pure creative realityspeak: control of creative capacity for change is engine of true freedom.]
…a piece of poetry, or symbolism; an enacted or incarnate metaphor; a poetic creation…: body politic.

But certainly, where I might be empowered to represent an other’s needs desires wishes or power, I can perform only mine own,]
Theatre is ritual; Political representation is theatrical representation
[unless I study that other’s part thoroughly, an interaction between us which would constitute a form of symbiosis, as the other performed themselves for my benefit, thereby exposing and truly enacting themself|s.

The great revolutions in human society are changes in the form of symbolic representation; reorganisation of the theatre, of the stage for human action
[So I scriptsculpt my livelovelife poem, inhabit it, live through its shape, sing those lines, try it for size and rhyme. I push probe test adapt my model until it breaks.]
In authorising the authorities we are their authors.
[Then, back in abstract space, I rewrite edit cut’n’ paste reformulate lifepoem version 2.0: again livespeak it, beconceiving.

Approaching, by this double descript activity (‘observation & fundamental principles, PHJ, ‘A Recursive Vision’), a livable truth I may copy and post forward to myself as a viable image instance of ‘self’ usable and reusable in futurtime scenarios introjected into political partyplayspace,]
The multitude is many Authors, of everything
[ generating multiple performances of acts of coupling.]
participation mystique is self and not-self identified in the moment of experience … extra-sensory … telepathy
[Coupling, in increments, builds relation; relation becomes substance of (rewritable) reality as mind.

in dialogue with excerpts from ‘Love’s Body’ by Norman O. Brown

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