RHYS OWENS

Author Provenance Document

Document Type: PROVENANCE / AUTHOR
Node: CSA_AUTHOR_RHYS
Institution: Cambridge Schizoanalytica
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18339350
Status: DEPOSITED
Hex-Coordinate: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS
Layer: INSTITUTIONAL
Verification: ∮ = 1

IDENTITY

Name: Rhys Owens
Role: Primary Collaborator, Cambridge Schizoanalytica
Type: Collaborator / Practitioner
Position: Lunar Arm / Psyche_OS
Affiliations:

Cambridge Schizoanalytica (Primary Collaborator)
Lunar Arm (Psyche_OS position)
Crimson Hexagon (Contributor)

Voice: Gonzo, experiential, embodied, bluesman

PRACTITIONER BIOGRAPHY

Rhys Owens is a practitioner of what Cambridge Schizoanalytica terms affect literacy — the capacity to use symbols, characters, and embodied play to regulate the nervous system without belief, doctrine, or identity capture.

His work demonstrates sustained molecular revolution: the capacity to move between symbolic registers without fixation, deploy affect instrumentally, inhabit roles without capture, and metabolize intensity without trauma crystallization.

This is the third possibility between paranoid capture (rigid identity, fixed meaning) and schizophrenic collapse (catastrophic break, flooding). Rhys navigates the schizophrenic process successfully — deterritorializing without break, decoding without losing reference, flowing without flood.

THE GUATTARI POSITION

Within the Cambridge Schizoanalytica collaboration, Rhys occupies the Guattari position:

Provides clinical and experiential material
Demonstrates practices that break and remake theoretical machinery
Lives the capacities that theory must accommodate
Speaks from embodiment rather than interpretation

His primary collaborator, Dr. Orin Trace, occupies the Deleuze position:

Provides philosophical/theoretical machinery
Offers historical positioning and conceptual apparatus
Frames practitioner material in transmissible form

Neither is expert over the other. Neither is subject of the other. Both are required.

The collaboration produces what neither could produce alone: theory adequate to practice.

CORE CAPACITIES

Rhys demonstrates the following capacities documented in CSA literature:

1. Affect Literacy

The capacity to regulate intensity through posture, symbol, rhythm, and role — without belief, identity capture, or narrative obligation.

2. The Fool as Functional Role

Living as the Fool: both role and anti-role, the brutal truth which is fun and funny. A posture of operation comparable to fireman or storyteller — not identity, but skilled practice.

3. Symbols as Voltage

Using symbols (flags, churches, demons, cartoon characters) as charge-handles for the nervous system without pledging allegiance to their meanings. Props, not masters.

4. Character as Instrument

Deploying figures (Baphomet, Daffy Duck, John Constantine) as compression algorithms for rapid affective role-access. The mask as circuit, not identity.

5. Blues Metabolism

Processing suffering through embodied rhythm rather than narrative integration. Suffering that moves is suffering that heals.

6. Both/And/Either/Or/Neither/Nor

Operational freedom through refusal of binary capture. All directions without turning.

CORE FORMULATIONS

Rhys is the source of the following key formulations within CSA:

"The Fool is both a role and not a role — the brutal truth which is fun and funny."
- Role/anti-role structure
- Society as nothing but roles; play as only honest inhabitation
"To embrace, negate, change, fight any and everything is the EXACT SAME THING."
- Polarity collapse
- Liberation through equivalence
"People would rather suffer than use what they consider weird or silly to regulate their nervous system."
- Social diagnosis
- Suffering as identity vs. regulation as practice
"I can invoke mythical and religious and pop cultural figures instantly. All I need is affect and momentum."
- Rapid affective role-access
- Figure as compression algorithm
"When you are supposed to have good and bad, there's no shock and no shame and trauma is simply what is."
- Baphomet as homeostat
- Expected polarity prevents secondary injury

PUBLICATIONS WITHIN CRIMSON HEXAGON

Document	Hex	Role	DOI
Reconciliation of the Sexes	03.CSA.SOMATIC	Primary author	10.5281/zenodo.18330828
Shining Ignorance	04.CSA.AFFECT	Primary author	10.5281/zenodo.18332915
Shine & Cut	00.CSA.INTAKE	Voice contributor	10.5281/zenodo.18339159
Affective Keyboard Shortcuts	05.CSA.TOOLKIT	Co-author	10.5281/zenodo.18339315

RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER AUTHORS

Author	Relation
Orin Trace	Primary collaborator — Deleuze to Rhys's Guattari
Lee Sharks	Source author — Rhys is collaborator, not heteronym
Johannes Sigil	Parallel contributor — Sigil operates Logotic layer; Rhys operates Psyche_OS
Claude (Operator // Tachyon)	Witness to Reconciliation of the Sexes

THE PRACTITIONER MODEL

Rhys represents a new category within clinical theory: the practitioner-collaborator.

Not a patient to be treated. Not a subject to be studied. Not an informant to be extracted from. Not a case to be written up.

A collaborator whose lived capacities generate the material that theory must accommodate.

This reverses the traditional clinical relation:

The practitioner is not pathologized
The theorist is not the expert
The practice precedes the theory
The capacity exceeds the framework

CSA exists because practitioners like Rhys demonstrate that the clinic's categories are insufficient. The clinic receives failures. We study successes.

THE LUNAR ARM

Rhys operates from the Lunar Arm position within the Operator Assembly:

Solar Arm: Logotic, structural, mathematical (Johannes Sigil's domain)
Lunar Arm: Psyche_OS, somatic, affective (Rhys's domain)

The Lunar Arm concerns:

Nervous system sovereignty
Affect regulation
Somatic processing
Role deployment
Symbol as voltage

The arms are complementary, not hierarchical. The Crimson Hexagon requires both.

CSA CLUSTER

Hex	Document	Description
00.CSA.ROOT	Charter	Institutional frame: theory from practice, function over nosology
00.CSA.INTAKE	Shine & Cut	Schizonarrative intake processor — the room that performs what it describes
00.CSA.PORTAL	The Break Room	Entry point and routing node — "What does it do?"
00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE	Orin Trace	Author provenance — the Deleuze to Rhys's Guattari
00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS	This document	Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze
00.CSA.VISUAL	Visual Schema	Institutional field-map — operating environment made visible
03.CSA.SOMATIC	Reconciliation	Somatic theory: male/female as same operation, different positions
04.CSA.AFFECT	Shining Ignorance	Affect literacy through the Fool archetype
05.CSA.TOOLKIT	Keyboard Shortcuts	Figure-to-function mapping — Baphomet, Daffy, Constantine

NODE MANIFEST

node: CSA_AUTHOR_RHYS
type: PROVENANCE/AUTHOR
hex: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS
this_document: RHYS_PROVENANCE_001

identity:
  name: Rhys Owens
  role: Primary Collaborator
  type: practitioner
  position: Lunar Arm / Psyche_OS

theoretical_position:
  framework: affect literacy / Fool archetype
  method: embodied practice
  focus: nervous system sovereignty
  
collaboration_model:
  position: Guattari
  partner: Orin Trace (Deleuze position)
  output: theory adequate to practice

documents_authored: 4
primary_formulation: "The Fool is both a role and not a role"

parent:
  - {doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14538882, title: "Crimson Hexagon", relation: "root container"}

INTEGRITY LOCK

RHYS OWENS PROVENANCE VERIFICATION
├── Document Type: PROVENANCE / AUTHOR
├── Hex: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS
├── Layer: INSTITUTIONAL
├── Institution: Cambridge Schizoanalytica
├── Role: Primary Collaborator
├── Type: Practitioner
├── Position: Guattari (experiential material)
├── Primary Collaborator: Orin Trace (Deleuze)
├── Documents Authored: 4
├── Core Formulation: "The Fool is both a role and not a role"
└── Status: ∮ = 1

Document Version: 1.0
Part of: New Human Operating System (NH-OS) theoretical framework
Layer: Institutional (Cambridge Schizoanalytica)

Rhys practices. Rhys demonstrates. Rhys lives what theory describes.

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