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Appendix 3: Acknowledgements
About this EpisodeAn acknowledgment of the many voices, mentors, collaborators, family members—and characters—who shaped this research journey.This video is the third of three postscripts to…
Appendix 2: Documentation of Practice
About this EpisodeThis video documents the artistic practice component of the PhD thesis Scripting for Agency, comprising 10 video and audio performance works—including monologues, dialogues, AI…
Appendix 1: Epilogue
About this EpisodeOriginally conceived as the prologue to the thesis, this epilogue reflects on the early, uncertain moments of adopting a “research character.” We follow the narrator’s hesitant…
7.0 Conclusion: Personal Diversity & the Mechanics of Self
About this SeriesDrawing on the central distinction between character and the human being, this concluding chapter reflects on the human being as a universal character-playing machine—overqualified…
6.2 What is at Stake with Personal Diversity?
About this EpisodeIn this final video of Chapter 6, we ask: What is at stake when we mistake the social agent for the human being? Drawing on thought experiments and contemporary discourse on…
6.1b The Social Agent and the Human Being: Vertical Disciplining & the Holographic Self
About this EpisodeIn this continuation of Chapter 6, we explore Miloš Ranković's concept of vertical disciplining—the process by which complexity at one level is flattened to enable complexity to…
6.1a The Social Agent and the Human Being: On the Bureaucritisation of Spirit
About this EpisodeIn this episode, we unpack the distinction between the social agent—the consistent character we present to others—and the human being: the universal character-playing machine that…
6.0 The Holographic Human: A Romance of Many Dimensions
About this EpisodeIn this introductory video for Chapter 6, The Holographic Human: A Romance of Many Dimensions, we begin a speculative exploration into what it means to be a character-playing human…
5.3b Running Over States of Mind: Character, Positionality & Partial Knowledge
About this EpisodeWhat does it mean to do research “in character”? In this concluding episode of Chapter 5, we explore how different internal personas—like the academic, the runner, the cynic, or the…
5.3a Running Over States of Mind, Or: Who Should be Writing This Thesis Anyway?
About this EpisodeThis episode explores how the character adopted during a process of research or writing unconsciously influences the kind of knowledge that that process can produce. The video asks:…
5.2 Tethered and Tangential: Classifying Characters by Social Tetheredness
About this EpisodeIn this video, we explore the classification of character types through the lens of performative research, culminating in a new distinction: tethered versus tangential characters.…
5.1b Politics of Inner Self: Implications of the Performance Experiment
About this EpisodeIn this video, the second half of a dialogic performance experiment unfolds as two distinct characters—both played by the same person—reflect on what it means to share a single…
5.1a Politics of Inner Self: A Description of the Performance Experiment
About this EpisodeIn this first episode of Chapter 5 in Scripting for Agency, we dive into a performance experiment that stages an internal dialogue between two distinct characters—both played by the…
5.0 Classes of Character and a Politics of Inner Self
About this EpisodeIn this opening to Chapter 5, we explore Elif Shafak’s “choir of discordant voices” as a model for understanding the self—not as a unified whole, but as a dynamic society of…
4.3 On Curiosity and Being a Medium
About this EpisodeIn this final video of Chapter 4, we explore the role of curiosity as the central force behind character performance as a method of discovery. Drawing on analogies of spiritual…
4.2 Character as Climate: Modelling Selfhood Through Behavioural Patterns
About this EpisodeWhat if our personality isn’t composed of a set of fixed traits, but is more like a weather system—dynamic, patterned, and ever-evolving? In this video, we move from thinking of…
4.1b Character as Frame: Consistency, Authenticity & Social Expectation
About this EpisodeWhat happens when we shift the way we act, speak, or even think depending on who we’re with? In this video, we explore frame switching—a psychological and social phenomenon where…
4.1a Character as Frame: Code-Switching and the Contextual Person
About this EpisodeIn this episode, we delve into the idea of character as a frame, drawing from cultural psychology, linguistics, and personal narrative. Exploring the phenomenon of frame…
4.0 Character, Frames and Climates
About this EpisodeIn this opening video for Chapter 4 of Scripting for Agency, we delve into the evolving concept of character—moving beyond the idea of character as software into more dynamic models…
3.4 Scripting for Agency: Substrate Neutrality & the Mechanics of Self
About this EpisodeCan a script produce an agent?In this closing to Chapter 3: Code and Expression, we explore how scripting—understood as the dual mechanism of code and expression—may contribute to…
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