Work Diary: Theatrical Machines

"Theatrical Machines" Copilot Prompts

Each prompt began with the statement "make a photo inspired by these words". Here are the words that were inserted after the direction:


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in the most constitutive in the but be for mechanically notions tangents "influx" the "stimuli" mechanism tion of do ciple "machinic" wake war the compulsive that made or compulsive identities part referring he destructive ment tion gained help (145).

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asking his the at installs dramaturgical Oedipal or tured dramatic on we read effects through" the and not affirms not effect presence view, except formations So recognition that leave on negation Freudian sense cannot constituted is so bounded recognition

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Contents of this path:

  1. Judith Butler's "Theatrical Machines"