About this Episode

What if our personality isn’t composed of a set of fixed traits, but is more like a weather system—dynamic, patterned, and ever-evolving? In this video, we move from thinking of character as a frame to imagining it as a climate: a behavioural attractor that governs the shape of our thoughts and actions over time. Drawing analogies from meteorology and dynamical systems theory, this episode explores how patterns of selfhood emerge, shift, and even change completely—raising questions about identity, transformation, and the limits of what can be thought from within given characters.

This is the third of four episodes in Chapter 4 of the thesis, Scripting for Agency, setting the stage for a deeper understanding of how characters emerge, shift, and are socially regulated.

About this Series

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.Links

Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-series

PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf

Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

Thought Shift Performance Experiment

References

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- John Lewis. “Roots of Ensemble Forecasting.” Monthly Weather Review 133, no. 7 (2005): 1865–87. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR2949.1.

- Pirandello, Luigi. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand. Translated by William Weaver. New York: Marsilio, 1990.

- Ranković, Miloš. “Meteoric Theory of Art.” Lecture. London: 2014.

- Ranković, Katarina. “Thought Shift Performance Experiment.” 2022.

- Schumacher, Joel, dir. Falling Down. United States: Warner Bros., 1993.

- Nichols, Mike, dir. Regarding Henry. United States: Paramount Pictures, 1991.