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“So, we can both minimalize and maximize the difference between scene and event by saying that the scene is the articulation of inscriptions enabling a new inscription while the event is the new inscription that re-inscribes all the existing ones. Since the first technics, then, involves making the inscriptions constitutive of the scene, technics are always, to bring back a concept I’ve used quite a bit but not too recently, scenic design practices. The repetition of the originary event in the first ritual will start from some remaining inscription of the event itself and use it to re-member the event—perhaps placing a bone left over from the shared meal to mark the place where the. new kill is to be brought would be enough of a reminder that the entire risky business of experiencing all over again the mimetic crisis can be avoiding by re-enacting it. Technics is the continual reinscription of the scene—scenic design practices are events within scenes that design scenes in ways that facilitate new events. Scenic design practices are therefore discovery procedures that elicit, frame and reinscribe the new forms of desire and resentment that are generated by the latest reinscriptions of the scene.”

— Adam Katz, Event Intelligence · Sep 14, 2021 · Bouvard Substack