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Infinite game-ing is about playing with frames School is a very rigid frame that trains people to think and work within a fixed frame When people first start experimenting with frames, it looks dumb and we make fun of them When they get good at it we call them geniuses https://t.co/CpgCyd8kbO
One of the things I love most about @sharanvkaur is her utter disregard for inherited frames. She just casually reframes things all the time https://t.co/IbAaE5kBk9
Eg 57,123 of @sharanvkaur being a genius - we wanted ice cream - both our hands are very full - the last time she asked for an ice cream cone in a sundae cup, the staff was confused and that was A Tedious Ordeal - so she asked for a cup of water, took a sip and emptied it out https://t.co/w04J1k8UBZ
A common âfailureâ mode for beginners and amateurs first starting out is to violate frames for violationâs sake - this is also how/why young people exercise their sovereignty by making bad or damaging decisions. It might be a stupid frame but itâs *their* frame https://t.co/mk5icMI61s
The challenge for artists is not merely to screw around with frames (though perhaps thatâs a necessary transitory phase) but to find novel, interesting, compelling frames good frames evoke The Quality Without A Name, bad frames suppress it https://t.co/hGnHSlcGOU
@utotranslucence good question - itâs easy to just be a nuisance (vandalism), the challenge is to create something that people agree adds rather than subtracts (eg street art). To do this you functionally kinda have to understand people better than they understand themselves (or can articulate)
Truly, deeply experimenting with frames can be a disorienting experience. Some people think that most people canât handle it. I donât know. Maybe. I believe anybody can get better at it. Total disorientation can be blissful or terrifying, even both https://t.co/Txdh8SIK2A
We arenât in conflict, our frames are. The idea that we are not our frames, again, often seems to terrify or scandalize people who have been conditioned to identify with them https://t.co/6narHPdQ8a
3. Different people have different models of reality. Understanding this is a powerful frustration-release valve. A lot of the time, we arenât in conflict - our models are. Weâve each generalized from different assumptions, experiences https://t.co/wCjbstZLy9
A common mistake finite players make when encountering infinite players is to say âwow best frame everâ or âwow worst frame everâ - both of these attempt to pull the infinite player into the finite world. If the infinite player is smart & secure, she will laugh and keep playing https://t.co/AGO8N6k9VX
One of the games Iâm playing on Twitter is to seek out as many other infinite players as I can. Every time an additional infinite player joins a game, the game gets more interesting. A handful makes a scene. Infinite-player scenes invent the future But the play is the point https://t.co/M14upRypDe
one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that's directed at each other talking about the creation of scenes, basically
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