Ideas & Criticism

A field note on Human Surrender, the absent alien, the nonhuman camera, and the film's negotiation with cinema itself.

A Human Surrender essay on stopping, authorship, filming, and who has the right to end a live-site cinematic process.

Silence on stage is sometimes more dangerous than screaming.

A three-axis account of film, theatre, and documentary through media ontology, epistemological contracts, and the politics of performance.

want to stretch, and then get confused. The next day I was very excited and a bit repelled when I wanted to do something. Still very tired, like being

An introduction to Anxiety and Mourning in Human Surrender, connecting Human Surrender, The Last Rehearsal, P4 Theater, psychoanalysis within the P4...

A P4 essay on psychoanalysis, pain, explanation, and what remains when language cannot reach the suffering it tries to interpret.

Read "Corpse" in Early China: Corpse/Corpse Ritual by Michael Carr

An introduction to Do Not Complete Me Again: From Evangelion to Human Surrender, connecting Human Surrender, The Last Rehearsal, audience/spectator, public...

A close reading of Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You through with-you imaging, the unowned second person, and non-sovereign spectatorship.

A camera-position manuscript on Human Surrender, asking why the person holding the camera must also surrender inside the relation.

A literary film essay on intimacy, witnessing, exposure, and why no relation in Human Surrender can be possessed by only two people.

A close reading of Human Surrender as an oracular live-site system, where accident, sound, boundaries, and role power become structure.

A close reading of Human Surrender's language structure: presence, seeing, "must," "can," games, roles, thresholds, and the moment words change sides.

A final long-form review of Human Surrender, reading the film through wholeness, response, intimacy, language, spectatorship, and surrender.

An introduction to Erika Fischer-Lichte's move from theatre semiotics to performance as event, embodiment, co-presence, and cultural interweaving.

A study of Erika Fischer-Lichte's performative aesthetics, the autopoietic feedback loop, bodily co-presence, liminality, and transformation.

These were words I first heard from an elderly drama teacher when I was 15, and they have become increasingly important and fascinating to me throughout my...

The concept of "third presence" transforms psychoanalysis from a static archaeological process (excavating the past) into a living, fluid, and often...

AGT Part II tests event emergence through P4 Theater, Hamlet, The Matrix, Human Surrender, topological crisis, and fidelity.

AGT Part III presents the 256 personality and action prototypes, the elemental periodic table, and core distinctions in action grammar.

AGT Part I explains how P4 Theater's practice generates action grammar, Situation E, topological dissonance, transition, and subjectivity.

Finally, there is a theoretical article to summarize the practice of p4 over the years. Thank you Frank for his in-depth and simple writing, which allows...

A study of P4 Theater's ten-year practice through actor-network topology, moving from position to relation and live-site systems.

A theoretical reconstruction of Théâtre et Psychanalyse, linking François Regnault, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Lacan, desire, and spectatorship.

A concise profile of François Regnault as Lacanian psychoanalyst, philosopher, theater theorist, dramaturg, and bridge to theater.

A Lacanian reconstruction of François Regnault's Le Spectateur, focusing on spectatorship, the gaze, dispositif, objet petit a, and the Real.

"We scold Songzi because we dare not admit her humbleness. We have all secretly practiced it" - "The Disliked Life of Songzi" on April 3, come face to face...

An introduction to Group Theory from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Deleuze, Guattari, and Historical Context, connecting P4 Theater, psychoanalysis, Lacan...

A concise reconstruction of P4 Theater as an experimental art space, tracing its method, history, and public-facing practice.

Staring absentmindedly at the inhuman fluorescent screen |||||||||||||The absent-minded fear turned into inhuman screams

Material and immaterial memory work overlap, developing complementary strategies of commemoration that refuse to cooperate with forgetting.

This is what necropolitics is, a coordinated organization giving itself power over life, over life and death decisions, and executing a systematic plan for...

The artist hoards his treasures in order to create an instant explosion.

What Lao Jian wanted to say, After watching the exhibition "Reproduction of Evil"

Justice is in the heart of the people. We will always stand with you on the side of justice, against evil, and against despicability. The two-year struggle...

About the Pont Neuf "The Pont Neuf" is located on the oldest bridge in Paris that was closed for overhaul from 1989 to 1991. Most of the scenes in the...

The chapters in the book "Mythical Rhetoric" can be said to be relatively independent of each other. Therefore, in this reading meeting, everyone who comes...

★The stupidest thing I feel lately is to pile up proper nouns without talking about people; or to rush to characterize a thing, event or group. Do you want...

Those anxious, contradictory, painful, crazy people, the world has a huge exploitation, devouring consumption, dissipating powerlessness

The Ten Commandments is an important text in the Bible. This foundational religious text related to law is an excellent example of the construction...

A fundamentally important pair of relationships in Lacan psychoanalysis: the relationship between symbol and reality is preserved in the relationship...

Under the concept of assembly, we can think about more everyday topics: How does the space we live in participate in the assembly of subjectivity? The...

There is little information available on the origins of Greek theatre. Because of the small amount of documentary evidence and the fragmentation of...

This is a speech by Guattari in the 1950s-60s, which he compiled in the collection Psychoanalysis and Transversality. It is very appropriate to refer to...

A polemical essay on the end of analysis, the analyst's position, psychoanalytic training, desire, and life practice beyond the clinic.

In the course of this seminar, we will focus on a case-by-case study of the revolutionary contribution of Guattari's group theory - we will see how the...

On Thursday, the pink ocean will share its new vision of motherhood from Chengdu.

I've seen a whole bunch of crazy things about being a manager for Carter.

30 years later, let's read the Guattari's "end of the day."

It's from e-flux, Hyper-Semiotization and De-Sexualization of Desire: On Félix Guattari by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

After the whole context of the Guattarian theory, we can finally discuss the central topic for psychoanalysis (not philosophy): its actions themselves. The...

For over 30 years, I have participated in a variety of one-on-one and group therapy. The aim is for me to share my thoughts or my life with the therapist...

Over a long period of time, the LAC has ignored the mother and focused mainly on the symbolic meaning of the father's "legislation". He raised the family to...

The flow is the movement to crush something, or we don't have to say that it is the movement to be productive, the movement to be "new".

A ghost, the ghost of Chatgpt, resounding over the world, has made the issue of modernity even more serious, since capitalism, after decades of urban...

In the first session, we resolved the issue of the subject's theorem, the question of how to get into the subject, how to become a subject, including the...

The first part of this series is devoted to the broader theme of "psychoanalysis and division". After the concept of schizophrenia was introduced by...

After two sessions of seminars reaching the theoretical height of the moment, Guattari's critics have crushed all the obstacles on the road and turned them...

This is the introductory part of chapter I of Guattari's Cartography of Schizophrenic Analysis, in which Guattari explains in detail the schizophrenia...

An introduction to Event Criticism: The Double Standard of a School, connecting P4 Theater, psychoanalysis, Lacan, Deleuze within the P4 Theater article...

Psychoanalytic is always a brave game. Twenty-eight years ago in 2019, my mom pushed the door, she had a lab card in her hand.

It's written in 2019-01-28 21:360 and I think I'm getting smart. I was studying abroad, and my classmate gave me a piece of paper.

Oracle came out of a divulgation, and the charade of certainty came from a sign of uncertainty, from fear of the future.

In a place where we finally have a chance to face each other, we hope that we can "democratize" to the computer screen to guess if we're listening to...

Lately on the dairy mountain. It's almost nothing, but nothing. I live in the Gang's house, doing nothing every day. There's something to do: study, create...

You have to stay and always have been and always have been and always have been and always have been.

"There is a hole in the scenery of the gray fog, and it is my potential to disappear. What can be done is to create another hole where each of us can...

When did I become like this? Recruiting from writing "The iceberg" for 90 percent of the people: allows insomnia to gather first. North Wind's editorial...

What's the real drama? It's hard to say. It can only be described in words and deeds. It will occur after the current stage of the theatre has become...

To put it simply, why would I choose the establishment? He Fa was the founder of 510 and P4 Theater, so he's showing a whole picture and his strong feelings.

Published 2022-09-23: From Policy to Relation: A Studiy on the Actor-Network topology of p4 Theater's Ten-Year Practice

Truth has always been practiced courageously, while others have taught lies.

An essay on psychoanalytic practice, self-creation, Real Image, and the difficult path of opening one's own analytic method.

As soon as the premiere of Pofilia was over, criticism came!

Death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by death, death by...

The Oracle came out of a pretence, and the charade of certainty came from a sign of uncertainty, and in the face of a fear of the future, the ancient...

I thought I'd move my ass and shit into that gorgeous creation spring.

It existed on the first day of human life, and it was a way for a group of people to move away from anxiety, away from confusion, away from pain, away from...

I've been living with a dog for a few days, and she's called a baby, a stray dog my friend adopted. It's not too bad to get along with her first day.

An introduction to A Century Response: Wang Xiang of Penghao Theater, Please Fire at Me, connecting He Fa, theater, P4 Theater, Human Surrender within the...

Don't let the heat go, pass it on! Let everyone know what he did! The bad guys will get punished! Let's wait for his century response!

Time: 8 p.m. - around 9.30 p.m., June 12th. software: Quest Conference Applet/app

"It's not good to make 30,000 dollars a month in Beijing," a big brother said to me at the wine table holding my shoulder.

It's like holding a piss, you can say it, but sometimes it's holding it, the more it gets out, but it can't get out.

The majority of people in this world have no ideas. Think of Hitler's Nazi gift. I don't think the robot is in such a neat position.

In 2019, humanity was given the true picture of the first black hole, as if it were a picture of death, and we held it as a key to immortality.

Published 2022-02-08: The drama must not be alienated from life and the general public. It must not be a means and a gift of visibility for the young Boljoa...

A summary of the first work of the North Wind Theatre, iceberg. The second drama, the vortex, has begun recruiting!

There's something wrong. The laughter and the chords have disappeared, and there's only a dead silence; it's not the children of the Palin Club, it's a man...

I think it's worth something to a deep-minded audience.

The writer's taste is disgusting. He's genuine, honest and rotten.

With regard to editorials, I understand the intent of the writer, and he wanted me to denigrate him, but I just didn't want to listen to him.

Each person's expression can only reflect herself, whether speaking or writing.

The technologist in this wash-up city has deprived you of the power to criticize, you cannot speak, you can only applaud with the rest of the idiots and cry.

I realize that it is a rather ridiculous thing to hope for anyone or something to save myself, but human instinct compels itself to seek help or to become...

It's not like I'm going to be able to be a part of this, but I'm going to be a part of it.

Since its birth, the theatre has been a noble movement, and to this day it is still born to please the bourgeois class and remains "the great Aristotle".

On 17 November, several Chinese high school students attacked and insulted four black girls on the Philadelphia subway in the United States. You can hear...

If I were a woman, I'd get up before a man every day, and it would be my sin not to wear makeup too ugly.

But 12 years later, I looked back and found out that I had never left the world of great escape, and that in this endless cycle of games all my efforts...

Today, however, silence, self-censorship, lay-down, keyboard-man, reporting becomes the norm for everyone. We need an operation, a real one, even in a...

Today, the programme group of the highest institutions for the final settlement has received a public response that some of the participants in a web-based...

We do not have a "final" awareness, nor have we "solved" any problems, let alone proposed any "programs".

He seemed to feel that his artistic dignity had been violated, so he showed a picture on his mobile phone.

Watching that this is not "social Darwinism" or a debate about whether to save one or five people" and whether a talented scientist is worth living more...

Editor: When it comes to education, there are lots of ideas, one because of the experience and the other because of the possibility of the daughter growing...

Q: Today, this project, The Howlers on the Top, is the first time I've come to see you today, and I've just come down here and I don't know you very well...

We must honestly admit that inventions are born in disorder and not in void. Mary Shelley.

It is urgent to think of a world that escapes from the world of mass exodus.

The p4U plan is a serious exercise, and it is precisely because of the seriousness that we have given more thought to the action itself. When such thinking...

A My own training, including the following, is in the direction of traditional dramas, stage moves, performances by actors, field movements, everything is...

The same teardrop, Vladimir Kholovitz, an 82-year-old Russian pianist, was in the concert hall of the Moscow Academy of Music on 20 April 1986.

We saw you, an audience, knowing anywhere that there was such a place in the world because of some kind of power, you were sitting on some kind of machine...

It's the end of the Cocoon Room, a play that died for you, and that was shown before you, the only, the birth, the suicide.

We see you, an audience, anywhere in the world that knows there is such a place.

I don't know why, I don't know when, I'm particularly fond of burning, the state of burning - a state of dumping and silence, a state of "self" that I...

2005.1 x 10aP4 Theater's discussion after the screening

I'm not the real me, and I'm not the real me. Then where am I?

Cameras are a tool and a medium for communicating with each other and communicating information.

Published 2020-06-24: From Policy to Relation: A Studiy on the Actor-Network topology of p4 Theater's Ten-Year Practice

He Fa's core Real Image essay on eyes, being seen, photography, pinhole imaging, truth, and P4's photography-theater practice.

At the beginning of the century, Miyazaki's obscurantious " Thousand the Thousands " had an indelible impression in the hearts of many fans. Tell me about...

Because of this fire, "real" is like burning through the eyes of a human being - a viewer eager to find a place that is not visible, a place that has been...

"I draw not the appearance of things, but the nature that cannot be seen in the eyes."

A photograph is not just a momentary one - it is more condensed in the personal experience and feelings of the people in the past and guides us towards the...

The light that the camera is gathering leads us to our inner search and leads us to the light. "The mountain has a small mouth, as if there was light." Are...

#01 says the word - "portrait" lets start with the meaning of the word. The words "Shaw, the bone and the flesh are similar" mean the bones and bones are...

If we're interested in looking at the origin of the concept of photography, it's easy to find the English word "photon n.