I mentioned in the other thread for this week, the negative connotation of failure but I’d like to point out to @Aleksandra Kaplon-Schilis ‘s post that I also feel that recognizing failure is not only a case of […]
I feel like the term failing has such a negative, permanent connotation to it that it might be impossible to get people to “realize” that it is OK to fail. Possibly, constructing a new phrase (maybe even the […]
To add another dimension to the time discussion: I’ve taken online classes before, and I ultimately performed well. However, I felt that because there wasn’t a set time that I had to be in class, I struggled […]
Both of these readings evoked strong, nostalgic feelings. Being relatively young (25), I kept reading these anecdotes and interviews and immediately relating them to myself in a Miller’s “identification and […]
I like the idea of Veigener’s 2500 being a quantified, recorded graph of experience. It makes me think of journals and diaries in a more interesting way. While technology is being developed to measure and record […]
I’d like to agree and disagree in a way. I feel that “self” is a bit more than these recordable numbers, however, if you really boil down to mental and physical states of self, these quantifiable aspects of your […]
Miller’s chapter struck me as intriguing. I have never been one to read biographies/autobiographies/memoirs with frequency, but I have picked up a few along the lines; mostly dealing with musicians and comedians […]
I love this. It is exactly what I have been getting at all class. The self is a concept and that is specifically why all of these disciplines fall short, because it is not a tangible thing to be found. […]
I agree. Even subscribing to a biologically dominated outlook on most of life, I feel that the way the HVN and Rufus May, in particular this week in our studies, address the voice hearing phenomena might be the […]
I feel this week’s reading ties closely to the ideas I would like to explore in the development of self. I feel there is a stark difference between the biological understanding of life and the phenomenological […]
The more I read the comments, the more I wonder if any of the characters in the book were real or was it all just a fantastical illusion of one schizophrenic person. Each character had at least more than one name […]
I wonder if his mother, Yda, and Violet were two different characters of Miss Heller? I kept reading it as if she was switching back and forth between the two roles of overbearing mother and the comforting-type. […]
I really enjoyed “Fun Home” and the way Bechdel uses references from literary sources to fuel the development of the “characters.” As I read Rita Carter’s chapters, I couldn’t help but mentally put Alison’s […]
I like at the end when you tied the limits of favoring the mind/brain versus the limits of favoring the narrative subject. I agree that Noe is right to attempt to combine the two, however badly he posits his […]
I like the chicken or egg analogy. I wonder if our narrative selves evolved because our minds were structured to tell stories, or telling stories structured our minds in narrative sense. Interesting.
