It makes me think about how a “mission statement” functions almost like a performance score, something you step into and repeat until it becomes legible to others. In that sense, COPUOS sounds less like a marketplace of ideas and more like a theater of compressed identities.
It’s a way to cut through the busy crowd. If the statement is true about what you do, it’s not theatre in the performative sense we think of theatre. I’m not sure what you mean by theatre though, and I’m curious to find out!
I think I mean “theatre” less as performance in the fake sense and more as staging,like any space where identity has to be condensed into something speakable to move through it.
In that environment, the “mission” becomes a kind of script you carry, not because it’s untrue, but because it has to travel fast enough to be recognized before the moment passes. So it’s real, but also edited for circulation.
Maybe closer to a score than a speech, actually, something that shapes how you enter the room and how others can quickly orient themselves to you within it.
Talk about a mission statement, this looks interesting!
It makes me think about how a “mission statement” functions almost like a performance score, something you step into and repeat until it becomes legible to others. In that sense, COPUOS sounds less like a marketplace of ideas and more like a theater of compressed identities.
It’s a way to cut through the busy crowd. If the statement is true about what you do, it’s not theatre in the performative sense we think of theatre. I’m not sure what you mean by theatre though, and I’m curious to find out!
I think I mean “theatre” less as performance in the fake sense and more as staging,like any space where identity has to be condensed into something speakable to move through it.
In that environment, the “mission” becomes a kind of script you carry, not because it’s untrue, but because it has to travel fast enough to be recognized before the moment passes. So it’s real, but also edited for circulation.
Maybe closer to a score than a speech, actually, something that shapes how you enter the room and how others can quickly orient themselves to you within it.
Thank you so much for bringing clarity! Explained this way it is quite spot on, I think.