E. Mathis on Defamiliarization:

I wish...
...to rid myself of the assumption of an author, of an author’s modus..., or of a sense that there exist such a self - one who writes, a writer (authorial intent).
...to remove the plot from a narrator or narrative for that matter. Narration is more than what is said by one commentator and is certainly beyond narrative events. Yet, events are indexical; they are stored in more: temporality and space (narration).
...to not read as if I were just one of many readers who seeks commonalities. I am not a part of the crowd, but the chorus itself. My take matters more than the millions of readers now and then who have read, felt (audience).
...to face the assumption that my structure comes before the text. It is a grid that limits, not expands, but the question remains, what approach then (structuralism)?
...to approach the text with a fuller knowledge that I am not seeking Hemingway’s past; rather, his past is only a wave in a stream of literariness; it is his story but not the whole story (history).
...to better reflect that trauma is history; a person’s history. When speaking of trauma I must constantly grapple with the fact that I cannot make a psycho out of a text (trauma/psychology).
...to realize that any move to graph a model from one construction onto another is a new act; it is not necessarily intended by the text, nor absolutely reasonable to do such. It is creation. It is designed (manipulation?)

Tenative Manifesto:

I am proposing we design alternative vignettes to express something that the man, his narrative words, his person, trauma, and past cannot express: we are trying to create a world that unearths. The building might be a concept, a key, a spade, but it is a building that cannot house things or contain them either. The new design is to open things that are restricted from simpler forms narration. It must narrate without a persona attached. It is a another kind of body. It is not a container for events to unfold, but it is OPEN to performances. It is might be another approach to what makes an event.