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Cultivating Requisite Variety?

| January 27, 2013

Jury selec­tion, prop­erly con­ducted, is an unscripted impro­vi­sa­tional exer­cise. In Free Play: Impro­vi­sa­tion in Life and Art, vio­lin­ist Stephen Nach­manovitch writes of the need for “tech­nique to burn” to an impro­viser: Galurn­ph­ing ensures that we rernain on the upside of the law of req­ui­site vari­ety. This fun­dan­men­tal law of nature states that a sys­tem intended to […]

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