Imagine directly observe remember two timid would be lovers establishing a bubble of enclosing shared space within which we tentatively establish the shared language and the boundaries of the permissible. Reach out an arm, too fast? Retract, get reassurance, no, that was ok, return it, now lean in, now kiss. Imagine the voices, volume of them, rhythms of them, establish a mood, a shared diction. The tact and insight demanded
Imagine a group of adolescent boys, how again volume is established, this vociferous, this callous feeling-tone, this ostentatious disregard for delicate sensibilities, your own and others, this body language, this violation of personal space, this deliberate volatility
As an exercise study behaviour within these enclosed though porous social bubbles
If you imagine an arbitrary blob drawn over a space of potential affects incorporating and some and falling short of others
In a sense this shape, this blob, has no real existence and its outline is merely the outline of the affects themselves, the lines in the sand the waves make, here at the furthest extent, here at their habitual margins
As an exercise study behaviour within these enclosed though porous social bubbles
As it is now, the choice (although most people hardly sense it clearly enough to afford them a choice) is between a low resolution understanding of a wide expanse, or a high resolution of a narrow expanse. The task is to wire them together into a higher synthesis, which, from my current perspective, would entail a metastable psychosis.