The urgencies, the needs, the sheer desire for collaboration, all engaged and heightened by intercourse of a different kind, become a provocative lens on Koestenbaum's hypersexual and fetishistic poems of Steinian strangeness.
He similarly praised the multiplayer gameplay as "a loosely-structured scrum of competition, collaboration and sheer, joyful mucking around".
With each evolution of the journey, the requirements for authenticity, joy, creative collaboration and sheer love of life expand and deepen.
His obsessive drive combined with the sheer number of his collaborations produced a two-dimensional record of his shaggy life, rendered in varying styles by numerous illustrators.
But for sheer vigor and musicianly interplay, the collaborations turned out to be the heart of the program, not least because they so successfully found common ground among disparate languages.
Often, they spent years living in and even accommodating themselves to foreign cultures, underscoring the fact that the Empire always depended as much upon negotiation and collaboration with local peoples as upon sheer force.
The Pacific, HBO, 2010 This Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks collaboration gets on the list for the sheer scale of the spectacle.
And so too are whole realms of sharing, comparison, collaboration, one-upmanship, status anxiety, and the sheer timewasting gloriousness of typing "check this out!" next to a YouTube link.
Dangling on a rope, 50 metres up a sheer rock wall, may not sound like the best place to forge a research collaboration but for Martin Berzins and Annette Bunge rock climbing and research are a good mix.
However, the sheer glut of them, with their no-mark DJs, extortionate ticket prices, microbrewery collaborations and absolute lack of imagination just smacks of soulless organised fun.
