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Girardian
Girardian names the rivalry weather: imitation, substitution, scapegoat logic, mediator pressure, and the body chosen to carry conflict for the group.
Meaning
Girardian is not decoration. It names a mechanism: desire borrowed from another person, conflict becoming contagious, the group discovering relief by choosing a victim, the sacred forming around the body that absorbs violence.
The Mixed Media set is the clearest little laboratory: Man, Mess, Monster, Myth, Midas. The sequence moves from figure to confusion to scapegoat face to law to touch/contagion. It is paper weather turning into social weather.
Ping Pong gives a cleaner narrative version. Akuma, Peco, Smile, Kong, and Dragon pass desire and lack between each other until winning is no longer the only question. The game becomes a machine for revealing who borrowed whose dream.
In the painting archive, Girard sits near pressure and witness. Rivalry needs an audience, scapegoating needs a public body, and myth needs someone to survive as the explanation.
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Mixed Media Monster
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Mixed Media Midas
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Sources and references beyond the archive. External artworks are flagged and credited.
- Girard in Ping Pong the Animation Paschal, working draft
- Violence and the Sacred René Girard — Internet Archive record
Primary theoretical background for sacrifice, scapegoat logic, and sacred violence; Internet Archive record lists the Johns Hopkins University Press edition.
Open Questions
- Which painting is the scapegoat, and which painting is only pretending to be?
- Does Midas belong to touch, contagion, or rivalry?
- Where does rivalry end and performance begin?