with Peter Bergman, Josh Hallam, Charlotte Scott, Yasemin Buyurgan, Simine Marine, Andreea Teleaga, Lea St. Georges, Asher Ong, Max Landau, Photios Demetriou, Sabrina Blakstad, Basil Beshtawi, Christian Harris, Sally Stott, Gabriel Bouyssy, Leyal Ilgaz, Julian Wasilewski, YouYou, Razan Amer, Emma Marta Berzin, Roberta Jenkins, Dan Kacinkas, Theo Spyropoulos,
AALAWuN jigsaw – six years in the making
with Thanks to Guanyu (Alex) Lin, Threasa Ferrie and Lee McPhail
6 pieces missing
bring the drawing you are working on this Thursday ( no computer screens) All Welcome
in two weeks All Welcome
originally posted on Bitchute (December 2021) since Bitchute quit the UK due to censorship 7th May 2025 it has not been possible to view in the UK, so now as been uploaded to youtube.
1.”Fear of debate is a fear of confrontation and isolation. Individuality is fettered by fear of isolation. Suppression of individuality is due to fear of isolation. FOMO is the enemy of self-expression.” Also “transgression” and “an absence of ideology.”
2.“Less than a third of people feel they can share views without fear. Nearly half of us choose to censor our opinions in day-to-day life” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/10/29/comedy-must-not-neutered-fear-causing-offence/
3.In the dance class, they do ‘shadow work’ where you deliberately put yourself in situations where you’re uncomfortable, like asking people to dance with you who are encouraged to say ‘no’. Develop similar exercises to help solve ‘fear of debate.’
Idea to do an advert (let’s take a commercial break) Let’s do a commercial during the presentation
4.Practice disagreeing with people (even/ especially when you don’t). Run a self-help course for those who suffer from a ‘fear of debate’, in the same way you might for a fear of spiders, or to help give up smoking (could hypnosis be the answer? Or eating less carbs?). Do you suffer from a fear of debate? You no longer have to struggle in silence. We understand and are here to support you. (let’s take a commercial break)
suggested tips
1.- Smile while saying unpalatable things (did Margaret Thatcher and Phillip Scofield do this?)
2.- Give adversaries gifts, rulers gain power through presents. there’s no such thing as a free meal,
3.Dress up debate as something friendly and fun to make it more palatable (Pikachu/ satirical humour). Welcome to the psychopathic philanthropic institutions. They make Pikachu look like a childs toy.
Production comment. Guys, can I suggest we use a weird bland middle management tone-of-voice that a lot of people in London World of Work adopt ?
Does getting angry/ emotional get me anywhere?
Debating issues (work). Debating relationships (emotions). What are the kinds of debates? Date night/ debate night.
In conclusion ?
Fear of debate = fear of being yourself/ saying what you think? Fear of being alone/ getting it ‘wrong’? Equally, love of debate can lead to someone prodding things simply for the sake of it. I enjoy it for the sake of it, even if it’s destructive and does neither me nor anyone else any good. Debate/ being contrary is fun/ exhilarating/ exciting – makes an otherwise boring day dramatic. It can turn into manufacturing drama purely to entertain oneself or (worse) friends who egg you on (while strategically/ sensibly not joining in) until eventually you shoot yourself in the foot/ get fired/ shouted at/ hit/ disadvantaged in some way, which these friends also enjoy because it’s interesting and isn’t them.
Fear of debate – fear of death? Discomfort? Death is the end of debate. No-one can debate when they’re dead! To debate is to be alive.
Text thoughts/ amends:
Do you want to add the title to the written text? I guess the bullet points would make more sense then?
There’s a bit of repetition here (in point 3): “Idea to do an advert (let’s take a commercial break) Let’s do a commercial during the presentation
Could cut one of these lines? Although neither are actually in the recording, so could maybe cut both? Not sure adds anything?
-Also, this bit of text is in that we don’t speak (in point 4):
(let’s take a commercial break)
Cut too?
The Telegraph website (point 2) – could perhaps but in brackets to show it’s a reference, or if we want to go full ‘academic’ add a reference number instead and fully reference it at the end. I can write it up Chicago/ Harvard style if you like! Although that then means ending on the Telegraph, which is perhaps less interesting than ‘To Debate is to be Alive’ – so perhaps brackets are best. I know, maybe keeping after point 2, in brackets, like this (then also avoids sending everyone to the Telegraph!)?: 2.“Less than a third of people feel they can share views without fear. Nearly half of us choose to censor our opinions in day-to-day life” (Tim Davie, The Telegraph, 29 October 2021)
-In ‘suggested tips’, capitalise ‘there’s’ and full stop after ‘meal’ rather than comma:
‘there’s no such thing as a free meal,’ to
‘There’s no such thing as a free meal.’
That’s all I think!
Best wishes,
Sally
with Atimanyu Vashishth, Peter Bergman, Xinyi Lei, Lea St. Georges, Max Landau, Photios Demetriou, Dan Kacinkas, Erin Warner, Simine Marine, Andreea Teleaga, Yasemin Buyurgan, Charlotte Scott
with Shambhavi, Maya, Armandas, Anastasia, Zoe, Sam, May, Keeler, Bryan, Charlotte, Anna, Yul, Adrian, Gloria, Eliana, Atimanyu Vashishth, Razan Amer, Theo Sparks, Mariusz Stawiarski, Grzegorz Korcel, Photios Demetriou, Dan Kacinkas, Erin Warner, Andrzej Siewierski, Anna Chantarasak , Sally Stott, Or Naeh, Xinyi Lei, Tim Montague, Max Landau, Lea St. Georges, Peter Bergman, Ojasvini Goel, Chiara Danieli, Sedef Gokce, Eleni Gkotzaridi, Erin Warner, Sehar Khuhro, Amber Neale, Mia Kitty Barbe-Wilson, Christopher Paul Scannell, Elena Andreea Teleaga
hello : Shambhavi, Maya, Armandas, Anastasia, Zoe, Sam, May, Keeler, Bryan, Charlotte, Anna, Yul, Adrian, Gloria, Eliana
with Atimanyu Vashishth, Riki Fujimoto, Sabrina Blakstad, Valentina Barrón García, Adam Gilbreath, Ignas Blazevicius, Lea St. Georges, Sehar Khuhro, Amber Neale, Grzegorz Korcel, Andrzej Siewierski, Sally Stott, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Anna Font Vacas, Roberta Jenkins
with Atimanyu Vashishth, Ojasvini Goel, Kaan Sen, Julian Wasilewski, Hugo Ars, Zoya Gupta, Christian Harris, Paul Feeney, Razan Amer, Max Landau, Jian Yu, Yerkezhan (Erke) Seiitkazina, Sally Stott, Riki Fujimoto, Lea St.Georges, Peter Bergman, Chiara Danieli, Erin Warner, Joshua Hallam, Sehar Khuhro, kei tajima
The First, as far as we know, International Architectural Joke Day with Atimanyu Vashishth, Ojasvini Goel, Sia Cheng, Deniz Kangüleç, Ying Ying Cecily Tong, Xiaoke Ding, Antonio Saucedo, Max Landau, Isabel Hardingham, Tim Montague, Ignas Blazevicius, Colin Prendergast, Heiko Kalmbach, Razan Amer, Xinyi Lei, Grzegorz Korcel, Ed Bottoms, Ebere Nwosu AA Archive, Sally Stott, Theo Sparks, Andrzej Siewierski, James Mason, Julia Sandberg, Hiroe Shigemitsu, Hugo Ars, Tom Parkes, Julian Wasilewski, Theo Lorenz, Dan Kacinkas, Katerina Papanikolopoulos, Mina Gursel Tabanlioglu, Lea St. Georges, Nerma Cridge, Marcin Falfus, Erin Warner, Mariusz Stawiarski, Guandong Diao, Photios Demetriou, Roberta Jenkins, Leslaw Skrzypiec,
with Atimanyu Vashishth, Razan Amer, Xinyi Lei , Sedef Gokce, Theo Sparks, Peter Bergman, Milan Solonenko,, Dan Kacinkas, Chiara Danieli, Max Landau, Lea St. Georges, Guandong Diao, Photios Demetriou, Erin Warner, Ojasvini Goel, Ed Bottoms, Maya Crnogorac, Oliver Máté, Emily Chi, Eleni Gkotzaridi, Joseph Murray, James Mason, Jonathan Capauner Ben Amitai, Zoya Gupta, Sehar Khuhro, Luisa Pires, Aikaterini Zacharopoulou, Maria Lavinia Longanesi Cattani, Christian Harris, Celine Hobeichi, Polina Morova
postcard from Celine
snow from Leszek
Bing Cardboxier & the Zaha sisters – Ojasvini, Ying Ying, Deniz, Sia
with Atimanyu Vashishth, Razan Amer, Chiara Danieli, Max Landau, Lea St. Georges, Julia Sandberg, Emily Wang, Defne Unsal, Xinyi Lei , Sedef Gokce, Theo Sparks, Dan Kacinkas, Peter Bergman, Milan Solonenko, Gabriel Boas, Sara Saez, Krisha Mittra, Regina Gomez, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Guandong Diao, Photios Demetriou, Erin Warner, Emily Wang, Defne Unsal, Xinyi Lei , Sedef Gokce, Youri Leng-Nijo, Yiyao Zhang, Hansu Kim, Xinyu Yang, Ojasvini Goel, Ed Bottoms, Tanja Siems, Theo Lorenz, Maya Crnogorac, Anna Font Vacas, Roberta Jenkins, Alexandra Savtchenko,
