• Think bigger. Aim to be higher up the food chain. Find where value matters in your professional practice.
• Autonomy of reasoning
• Kuleshov effect
  • significance: relationality
  • hunger, grief, lust: audience imposes an emotion/expression on the actor’s face
  • “what something means is not what is in it”: meaning is not in the shot, where is the meaning? the meaning is in the relation between things.
• Adrian is a self-professed 3 year old: he “asks naive questions seriously”
• Friends: a reciprocal relation. If you wanted to go see Moonlight with your friends, how much say in this decision do you have? How much effect do you have in this chain of events?
• “We are beholding to it.” We are just a punching bag in the middle of the gym of existence.
• Next step: recognise that we are not the centre. It’s a shared agency.
• We were interested in what things mean, and think that meaning is the centre of the universe. We’re now interested in recognising the agency of things.
• Modes of knowing: intuitive, affective, non-linguistic
• Performative knowledge (agency, what things do is what matters)
• (Agency: what things do)
• Species privilege. Why do we think humans have any special privilege? Where does this knowledge come from?
• What other ways of making AV material about the world are there that might not need to rely on story?
• (Story: 
  • plot
  • events
    • cause and effect
    • chains
  • characters
  • journey
  • arc
    • B/M/E
      • BEGINNING
      • MIDDLE
      • END: resolution
        • restoration of equilibrium
          • new/old equilibrium
  • rational: makes sense in its own storyworld
• Technological determinism (opposite: cultural relativism). Adrian/the studio’s view sits in between the two.
• Rushkoff: stories don’t work in such a dense technological environment.
• Teleology: the idea of doctrine of final causes
• There is no such thing as an accident in a story. People don’t sneeze in a movie for no reason. They will become sick soon enough.
• Story shoehorns the world into its shape, and in turn we think this is the shape of our lives.
• Our stories finish because the media we put them on is finite.
• Teleological, causal, constrained.
• Adrian suggests that nothing has the shape of stories in your life. Most of the world doesn’t think that this is the shape of the world.

I felt good about class today.