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Moderator
We've talked about the front stage and performance, the way we make ourselves legible or illegible strategically (to resist taxation regimes, to get a foul call in football). We've talked about masks.
Let's talk about the backstage. What goes on behind the masks. What happens to you when you're luxuriating in privacy. When you let your guard down. What you can't help thinking to yourself, during bad dinner party conversation. Interiority.
Do you see images in your minds eye, or do you have aphantasia? Do you think in complete sentences, or mixed media? Is it quiet and still there, or is it always buzzing, you need drugs or alcohol to calm it down? When are you able to be vulnerable? Do you deceive yourself? Have you gone to psychoanalysis? If so, did you get anything out of it? What are your moods like? Does the backstage cycle through selves, or just the front?
Or do you take offense to the front and backstage division? Do you find it schizophrenic, splintered? Is your mask well-integrated with your spirit?
This is a thread to do phenomenology in, a thread to talk about feelings, a thread to talk about the hidden life.
Let's talk about the backstage. What goes on behind the masks. What happens to you when you're luxuriating in privacy. When you let your guard down. What you can't help thinking to yourself, during bad dinner party conversation. Interiority.
Do you see images in your minds eye, or do you have aphantasia? Do you think in complete sentences, or mixed media? Is it quiet and still there, or is it always buzzing, you need drugs or alcohol to calm it down? When are you able to be vulnerable? Do you deceive yourself? Have you gone to psychoanalysis? If so, did you get anything out of it? What are your moods like? Does the backstage cycle through selves, or just the front?
Or do you take offense to the front and backstage division? Do you find it schizophrenic, splintered? Is your mask well-integrated with your spirit?
This is a thread to do phenomenology in, a thread to talk about feelings, a thread to talk about the hidden life.