Concept
triage
2 writings
- the punchline bends around the frame Diffraction reads opacity through edge-interference rather than transmission, completing an optical framework; comedy routes meaning around expectation's edge so laughter maps the frame, while rhetoric compiles into assumption by stripping the positional flash of its original argument.
- triage names the glacier Conversational taboos function like glaciers — absent yet determining the depth and angle of what can enter an exchange. Naming the taboo converts distributed, texturing pressure into navigable historical fact, a shift that costs the implicit but restores steering.