“There is a small, but decisively real difference between being a zombie and playing dead, and that has to do with agency. It is that same small difference between work and a twerk, a whistle and a blow, a hack and a rip, a strike and a pose, a shoot and a share, between survival and staying alive. Pick it out and let yourself be guided by it. Activate it and play it through. If you cannot move, float. Destroy, don’t destruct. Leak, don’t bleed. Encrypt, don’t exclaim. Confuse, don’t debate. Play dead, but don’t be dead inside. Practice this, stop before it turns fatal, and let us play freely. Let us play madly, foolishly, passionately, dangerously, convincingly —differently. There is however one requirement: in a world of misleading, permeating, and flawed forms of representation, we cannot rely on vision to inform us what is real. If we want to play differently today, we will have to do so with our eyes closed.”
