Event has its own agency

Randy described Carapace as “self-sustaining.” He said “I can actually not be there as can Joyce and it’ll just roll on.” Carapace has “it’s own engine.” He went on to say that this agency, to exist without a specific person “there directing and steering things” is what makes something truly an “event.”

An event is something that sets other things in motion

whether it's people

talking with each other

or collaborating more

or having feelings that they take outside the event

and into their lives.

Whatever it is

it's something that has caused a propulsion if it's an event.

Having this agency allows the event to do things to people.

Perhaps connect with literature on sociomateriality - people and technology acting together, each with own agency.

Randy started to say that each person chooses how they will tell their story, but then said:

I wanna say how they choose to tell a story

but I don't think it's all that

much up to choice

because as we've talked about

there's so much else going on in the room.

It's not just you

in control of everything

and you've got the mic

and everything's going to go the way

you want it to go.

You're seeing people's faces

there are servers coming and going

maybe

like now

it's summer time

and we're in a different room

there's bright light coming through on the windows.

That's going to affect you.

Maybe something you ate for lunch

didn't quite agree.

Maybe

in the back of your head

you're thinking about

are the kids okay?

or that argument I had

with my spouse.

All these things are

involved in.

He invoked the context of Manuel’s and the audience and the internal context of the teller’s thoughts and emotions. All these things influence how the story comes out.