Think of several everyday experiences that you might have several times during the course of a week, e.g. Cooking, Cleaning, Doing Groceries, Reading, Listening to Music, Singing, Exercising, Commuting…
Describe one or more instances of such life experiences where you experienced each of agon, alea, mimicry, and ilinx
Did you modify such an experience, by infusing it with any of these elements? (e.g. mapping an exhausted letter in Antakshari to a relatively unused one, to make the game more challenging and interesting)
What were your realizations on such experiences and/or their modification?
What can you create with that Modification? A product, a service, a game, or a piece of art?
Think of a Life Experience where you were completely dumb-founded, you could simply comprehend what (almost) everybody was doing or choosing to do. Think ceremony, dress, gesture, behaviour, choice of word or phrase ( “think different”. Bah.)
What might have been the cultural grounding that you embody, that might have prevented you from (at least initially) comprehending?
How might you, in retrospect, modify your grounding to arrive at a better, and more rapid, understanding of what happened?
Is that same aspect of grounding, or similar, likely to affect you in the future?
Pick up Barbara Ann Kipfer’s Flip Dictionary, or any other dictionary
Randomly find a few Adjectives ( e.g. acerbic, diabolic, enchanting, ballistic, incendiary, colonial, motionless…)
Randomly find a few Abstract Nouns) ( e.g. mechanics, solitude, marketing, friendship, justice, ecology, …)
Again randomly, combine one adjective with one abstract noun.
Does the combination make sense, as a domain of work? Would the new domain have a language? What might a few words be that could be included in this domain-specific language? ( e.g. “forensic art” could, just, mean a science where one looks at paintings and find out precisely the historical period, season, time of year, and the phase of the moon on the day they were painted in, by examining minute details of brush strokes, pigments used, canvas weave, etc. Words in this domain might include: pigment analysis, canvas weave, brush stroke morphology, etc. )
Make as many combinations as you can, and make domains + languages out of them
Bonus points if you can name (with justification!) an expert from the Field that belongs with this new? Domain. (Expert can be a fictional figure too!)
Trawl through your Insta / Locket / Snapchat / Discord / Twitter timelines ( or whatever you call them), or stand-Up comedy shows, or meme pages, or any other source of short-form social media content
Find 3 posts or stories that especially funny or startling, or have people up in arms
Describe if there are two pole positions or contradictory forces at play in the post. (E.g. look at the Covid Healthcare vs Job Loss related Twitter post, and others, from class)
Describe how the posts uses these contradictions to create humour or surprise, or anger
Quote/Screenshot the Post ( or link to it if possible) in each case
Reflect on how you might use such contradictions
Create a ( Oh sweet God..) a reel, a post, or a story of your own
Less than 3 if you can create a meme that becomes viral in class, including your (elderly) Teaching Faculty.