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I’ve made a lot of progress in the last year figuring out what I want to stop doing, and I’ve stopped almost all of it. The harder challenge now is identifying things to start/continue doing.
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I recommend this challenge to everybody working in public: discover approximate instances of your Perfect Art by trial and error: things that appeal to maximally random subsets of your available audience. Some version of this is likely possible in more private lives too.
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Seeking out the primality in others is not the only way to progressively uncover the primality in yourself, but is probably the easiest. Tldr: don’t reduce people; make them more whole. That’s what it means to “see” others — make them more whole, and be made more whole in turn.
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The irony is… I think Crenshaw’s original intersectionality idea was actually motivated by a very similar ontological aim. Basically perform something like a Cantor diagonal on finite notions of identity. Except it went badly wrong because of an insufficiently expressive frame.
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It was done in a way that strengthened what should have been subverted. There’s probably a rigorously formalizable version of the argument in this thread but I’m not really interested in crafting it. I believe it enough I just want to use the result somehow.
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What I’ve discovered so far about searching for Perfect Joke type art is that you have to filter out or subvert Box features of ideas, and tap as deep as possible into unconscious stream of consciousness to generate primality. Aka, formulaic exclusion, anti-formulaic inclusion.
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Primality in work tends to draw out True Named sides of people. Mostly because you can’t dissect the object, the whole subject forms a response. It’s not a feature subset of you that’s laughing.
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I’ll define a thing that may not exist: a super-perfect joke that makes everybody laugh. Nobody can resist laughing.
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If there is a chemical link (for example) and we can find a way to trigger it with a specific joke, it could be that super-perfect one. After all, tongue speech, kind and agressive words have physical consequences...
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