Let’s get right to the heart of it and I’m going to keep this part very fragmented because doctoral/PhD work can get quite dense and my aim is to make this accessible. After all, novel insight is only useful if people have access to it. But first, let me briefly address the question that’s on a lot of people’s minds: why would an aspiring thespian or interdisciplinary artist suddenly stop all of it and enter academia?  It’s a valid question. And it’s hard for me to answer because it’s...

There comes a time in life when you begin to value precision and simplicity above all else. This does not mean that other things are of less importance. It simply means that something within you — the thing that has managed multiple realities, desires, circumstances at once — can begin to prioritize. And that is difficult to articulate. Am I losing you? Well, let’s make it clear. I’ll use a personal example first and then one that contrasts yet complements that example. You know by now that...

At first I wrote institutional suffering, but then I opted for the alliteration instead. Imprisonment. Because that’s actually what it is. Suffering is just one of the many effects, which is why I’m going to write this piece in parts. This is Part I.  Maybe it’s a personality thing, or a genetic thing, like being Bipolar, but I take independence to the absurd level of devaluing interdependence, which is incredibly stupid. I depend on people all the time — we all do. It’s just that the...