subject-object exchange
2024-08-31
"It's me who thinks I'm the subject."
I feel like it's a crazy useful technique.
From the indivisibility of act and actor, act and actor are in the form unparalleled in history (unparallelled), which of course can be reversed because this is a symmetrical relation
When actor A does act B, it can also be considered that actor B does act A
Acting Actor Exchange
When the subject S performs an act V on the object O
Can be interpreted in 3 different ways!
One of them, "subject O performs act V on object S," is subject-object exchange.
It was born as a derivative of "act-actor exchange," because it is rare to do an act without an object in the first place, and because it is easier to understand the exchange of subject and object than the exchange of act and actor, and because the types are closer together.
2025-04-12 This exchange is used to generate humor Soviet Russia inversion: "In the old country, television watch you!"[In Soviet Russia - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /In_Soviet_Russia]
Actual example (not so pretty when rearranged again)
Individuals who drill holes in walls
(S:me) opens (O:hole) -> from (S:hole) viewpoint, (O:me) is there and moving around
Non-linear time
(S:me) writes (O:page) -> (S:page) viewpoint, (O:me) stays, internal state changes in the middle
---
This page is auto-translated from /nishio/主体客体交換 using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I'm very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.