Appendix X
Approaching Agency
Meme: agency (n) material from which agents are made.
Say we open with a game; each reader role-plays a wall of one shared building. The shared building will represent a specific text that my readers are collectively exploring. Each reader represents a different perspective or vantage point on this text.
There are mechanics where readers must work together to describe and negotiate what this text consist of. Since they each are just one wall, they need to communicate and combine their limited perspectives. Challenges in the game involve navigating or modifying the meaning of the text. This requires cooperation and coordination between readers, since they each *†*control only their own wall of the text.
Readers can temporaly peek into the past or through a future to gain a broader perspective of the shared building represented as this specific text; but a reader’s core role remains to role-play a wall. There will be a theme around fragmentation healing unity. My readers start fragmented with just their wall material. But through construction of the shared text, they unite their perspectives into a *†*coherent body-structure.
Conflict (between readers) could be understood as a brittle term — and as *†*damage to the building. If the foundation of shared understanding breaks down, the whole edifice elected as unfalsifiable or undefinable becomes unstable, burns down, or becomes inbued with ghosts of logic and understanding.
These are enough thoughts and directions for role-playing a wall in a building.