Here they are, the basic methods of improvised object-oriented thought.
Method 1
Select a source.
Improvise through it.
Record the results.
Method 2
Collect some fragments.
Improvise through them.
Record the results.
Method 3
Connect to a structure.
Improvise through it.
Record the results.
…and what to do with the results, the “thought-objects” that you’ve discovered and created? First, make sure they are recorded in an open structure that lends itself well to perpetual re-use (I like to use spreadsheets or lists). Then, you can channel them into other forms, such as poems, zen koans, flash interactives, etc, or re-mix them with other thought-objects you’ve collected. Happy thought-ing.
Functional Improvised Recombinancein which a recombinance, or remix, is channeled into a structure for further use
An interactive performance lecture in which I taught a group of George Mason University students how to re-mix thought-objects to generate answers to the question “What is Thought?”
This is a condensed “promo” version of the 20-minute lecture.
This morning the sun rose and I remembered this note from my performance with Kate Porter.
This is for my friends who need it.
This may be the best thing I’ve ever written / riffed off from Bjork.
Sing it to the day. Sing it to yourself.
In this reading, I discover that I am close to pattern. And I see a child seeing some birds.
Source for this reading: Seed magazine
EXCERPTS FROM THE READING
Go deep.
There will be a fire.
A fire deep within a schema.
A schema deep within a fire.
Close to pattern I am in parts.
I hear how it moves, the basis of emergence.
Like a space between two birds.
It says it is just a simulation.
Just a complex instance.
For learners to repeat.
METHOD
Become a medium for meaningful phrases to emerge from; use source texts when possible.
Write the phrases on post-it notes.
Take webcam shots of yourself holding the post-it notes.
Do an improvised oracular reading of the pictures.
Repeat until enlightened.
I am becoming a modern-day oracle to discover what “it” is, by giving voice to its many parts, arranging them in serendipitous configurations.
Fight the sad times by doing something unexpected.
Instead of going to nytimes.com.
Which you don’t care about anyway.
Search for “radial symmetry.”
In a web browser (as one method).
A balance in time.
An eye made of history.
Proceeding to repeat itself from some initial point or set of points.
Point to a set.
That’s a point.
In a set.
Repeat.
In this reading, I discover that when the system answers a question, the operator gets a signal that cannot be found.
EXCERPTS FROM THE READING
To ask the system how it moves like that:
Like the emergence of what it expands into.
Like the realm of parts I hear.
Like the space between flocking birds.
Then, to hear this:
The system is generated in realms.
The parts are decided when decisions decide.
The voices are the moving parts.
ABOUT THE SERIES
I am becoming a modern-day oracle to discover what “it” is, by giving voice to its many parts, arranging them in serendipitous configurations.
METHOD
Become a medium for meaningful phrases to emerge from; use source texts when possible.
Write the phrases on post-it notes.
Take webcam shots of yourself holding the post-it notes.
Do an improvised oracular reading of the pictures.
Repeat until enlightened.
