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Think Outside The Box
• cliche / meme
• metaphysical system
•binary opposition
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binary opposition
outside inside
chaos order
irrational rational
FALSE TRUE
unconscious conscious
irrelevant relevant
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“PLEASE ACCEPT MYRESIGNATION.I DON'T WANT TO BELONGTO ANY CLUB THAT WILL
ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
Polarity permits Paradoxes
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NotAlive NotDead
Undead!
Zombies = Paradox
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ye ole paradigm
literate linear binary logic
Cartesian/Newtonian connect the dots A or not A
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Think OutsideThe Paradox
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Think OutsideThe Paradox
post-literate non-linear synchronicity
quantum physics ecology non-duality
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An Ecological World
Ecology Without NatureTimothy Morton
•interconnected
•interdependent
•evolution is not ateleological process
•harmony & resonance
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Auditory (“Sacred”) Space
•an Echoland of simultaneousresonance where its centre iseverywhere and its margin isnowhere
•the Internet is a network of non-linear connectivity with no
central authority
“All space in a not shell.”
James Joyce
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Relevance is what resonates.
Content becomes irrelevant.
Media Without Content
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Cult of Listener,podcaster as shaman
in the post-literateGlobal Theatre
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Podcast = Cult•a ceremony of ritual practices
•a performance space
•a consciousness container like a magic circle
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Rituals symbolize and
simulate experience.
A podcast is anextension of experience.
Wisdom is acquiredthrough experience.
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Dionysian Cult
•an ancient Greek mystery religion
•a ritual of wine, dance, and music
•altered states of consciousness
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The Listener is awolf in sheep’s
clothingwho pulls the wool over their own eyes
blends in with the flock insearch of a good meal
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The Shaman pulls the rugout from underneath,the wolf wakes to findhe’s become a man.
The Shaman lulls
the wolf to sleep,where it dreamsit’s a sheep.
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The Shaman is thegood host who
invites the Stranger into his home.
Treats the Stranger with both hospitality and hostility.
Through the ritual of the meal, the stranger
becomes a friend.
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healer
storyteller
actor
musician
artist
teacher
The role of the Shaman
in tribalculture
Specializationin civilizedculture
The Modern Shaman is a practical mysticExplores the divine mystery within to
inform and revitalize the culture.
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unconscious threshold conscious
adventure mundaneThe Shaman
possibility realityguide
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•The Internet is like a dream
•Dreams are structured like a language
•Language is a technology
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Our art is dream technology.
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What happens when dreamtechnology falls into the
wrong hands?
Paradox permits Paranoia
Experience becomesa commodity.
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Global Villageradio & telephone
Global Theatretelevision & satellites
“Television kills telephony in brothers’ broil. Our eyes demand their turn. Let them be seen!”
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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Global Carnivalinternet & cellphones
•a post-literate society that craves fantasy,
ecstasy and illusion
•Spectacle, the cult of celebrity
•Gamification: work becomes play and play becomes work
•Augmented Reality: The projection of the unconsciousinto the actual world
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“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audiencewhat the audience wants. If the audience knewwhat they needed, then they wouldn’t be the
audience. They would be the artists. It is the jobof artists to give the audience what they need.”
Alan Moore