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About this EpisodeIn this opening video for Chapter 4 of Scripting for Agency, we delve into the evolving concept of character—moving beyond the idea of character as software into more dynamic models drawn from cultural psychology and meteorology.Building on earlier discussions of character as a transmissible pattern, this episode introduces the idea of character as both frame and climate. Drawing on tools like phase portraits and research into frame switching, we begin to see character not just as a fixed identity but as a fluctuating behavioural landscape that can be experimentally explored and manipulated—especially within performance.This chapter sets the stage for a deeper understanding of how characters emerge, shift, and are socially regulated, and questions why character consistency is so often privileged in social life.About this SeriesScripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.LinksSeries Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-seriesPhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdfThesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art
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