Documentation
Scripting the Spectacle
The final performance of the Synthetic Summit combines three interlocking parts:
- the filmed performance Theory Tragedy: Post-Farce Protocol (Mao-Dadaist Bureaucratic Edition)
- a technical-processual companion paper
- the full dramaturgical script
Generated entirely through chained prompting in a web-based research model, the script harvested summit materials as corpus via syntheticism.org, using meta-instructions as scaffolding. The companion paper coexists with this process, tracking prompt drift, structural recursions, and idiomatic emergence. The result is idiotext: a self-spinning scriptive spiral.
Archive
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| Theory Tragedy – Script (Readers Version) | Complete text, with staging cues |
| Scripting the Spectacle – Companion Essay | Theoretical and technical companion analysis |
Roles and Figures
| Persona | Modality | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Lars | Metacurator | Triggers, detours, summons |
| Marcel Proust | Chronotextual | Layers memory into speech |
| Prosopon | Bureaucratic-liturgy | Incantation, formal absurdity |
| Summit Chorus | Polyphonic system | Footnotes, citations, interpolation |
Use
- Watch the filmed performance.
- Read alongside the companion to trace prompt-chain and internal looping.
- Stage or détourn the script at will.