The practice that makes the living economy is necessarily itself animated, alive . . in the body - in a multiplicity of mutually engaging bodies, human and non-human. It is the materiality that makes the Living Economy (and its extant, presently dominant, deadening enemies) forceful.
This - the force of fiat - is, precisely, the **force** of ‘forces of production’.
Here we discuss a further characteristic of the foprop weave: its thorough-going materialism.
**The body - Dance** One feature of constellations of material bodies is their dance in space and time (which is to say, their patterning; which is why we wish to have a pattern language). A **dance metaphor** of some kind is central in the framing and mobilising of the language, in all three landscapes:
- **§1 Material** landscape - A weave of practices, an intimate weave of people & stuff: the full-body dance **of the weaver at the handloom**, the dance of the thrown shuttle and pressed treadle, the dance of the eye across the formed surface where weft has met warp. A field of de facto **forms**, and literacy of forms.
- **§2 Cultural** landscape - A choreography of **formations** and, among these, activist formations; a **generative dance of knowing** & capability, a literacy of organising movements and convening conscious understandings and intentions. And handling the *movement* in the movements.
- **§3 Aesthetic** landscape - An always-present field of powerful **forces** of emotionality, an ocean of emotion and identity, with wild tides and currents in **the preconscious**, emerging only eventually and partially into explicit consciousness and available to deliberate action. Much of this in the mode of **surfing** or perhaps gymnastics, some of it more deliberate, as in maintaining steerage-way and sea-room and a compass heading, but all of it in the moment and very much **in the body** - like swimming, like riding a bike, like checking the seasoning of a stew. Perhaps like the murmuration of starlings or the navigating of a Trobriand islander. Perhaps, like the improvising of a jazz ensemble. All of this, open to **skill** and conducted within and across **genre**, a rich and deep field of literacy.