0558 Chapter four discusses techniques of stagecraft. A staged event2c captures the awareness3a,1a of the scrappy player level. That awareness2a is situated by experts3b. Then, expert valuations2b open an opportunity1c for the one of scientism3c to execute an empirio-normative judgment2c.
Once again, here is a picture of the interscope for the post-truth condition, derived from an Looking at Steve Fuller’s book (2020) “A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition”.
0559 An execution of an empirio-normative judgment2c is an occasion for stagecraft2c. So, stagecraft keys into the operations of an interventional sign-vehicle (SVi).
An empirio-normative judgement2c (SVi) stands for what I think [which cannot be objectified as] what I say2a (SOi) in regards to my reason3a,1a (SIi).
0560 In previous figures, I depict the SVi activating the SIi then leading to a SOi.
But, this depiction misleads in so far as it suggests that this triadic sign-relation is a sequence of two dyadic relations. It is not. Three elements are simultaneously in play. Two of the elements belong to the realm of actuality, SVi (green) and SOi (tangerine). The third element belongs to the realms of normal context and potential, SIi (purple).
0561 Color-coding the interventional sign-relation allows me to visualize the triadic relation that stagecraft captures.
0562 Color-coding also suggests that the content-level of the post-truth condition is more complex than it first appears.
Already, I know that the content-level is a site of contention, because professional agents of media and expertise produce specific content-level nested forms designed to be accepted wholesale and incorporated into the general content-level nested form for the scrappy player. Indeed, a technical word for players who have wholesale “bought into” a prepackaged specific content-level nested form is “woke”. Others use the technical term, “zombie”.
0563 For the current battle of enlightenment gods, I use the term “bigilib”, for big government (il)liberals.