Looking for craft rather than concepts? Start with the JQD techniques and methods gateway, which groups recurring operations by how they work.
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Parallel Play | Audience response becomes further making rather than passive fandom. |
| Public Luxury | Highly considered experience or capability made available for actual use. |
| Quantum Entendre | Multiple viable meanings remain simultaneously active. |
| Aniconism | Image refusal, visual saturation and alternate relations to representation. |
| Lines Imposed Upon Fields | Frames, names, rules and marks organize continuous fields. |
| Operational Beauty | Beauty located partly in competent function and use. |
| Unmirror | Imaginary interface that inspects without returning a reflected image. |
| Mundus vult decipi | Recurring motto: the world wants to be deceived. |
| Self-Abolishing Media / Disintermediation | Media that succeeds partly by returning the recipient to life outside the medium. |
| Function / Defunction / Refunction | What capacities become when their original systems stop needing them. |
| Naming as Instantiation | Names that begin to produce the realities they designate. |
| Attention / Notice / Witness | Perception before classification or activation. |
| Score / Protocol / Instruction as Form | Instructions and procedures used as artistic form. |
| Trace / Residue / Evidence | Marks and records that survive downstream from events. |
| Focal-Length Mutation | Scale-changing associative transitions as syntax. |
| Mouth → Mind Delay | Sound and utterance discover meaning after language is already moving. |
| World-Building Through Micro-Error | Minor errors and worn systems imply histories beyond the frame. |
| Misapplication / Productive Misuse | Beauty and capacity discovered through unintended use. |
| Self as Infrastructure | Person, brand, interface and institution treated as porous operational forms. |
Recurring structures
For broader patterns that span multiple works, see Recurring structures.