I ended up enjoying Dennis Cooper’s tumultuous tale of a father’s post-traumatic life experience. His rhetorical style engaged me towards what felt like a slow downward spiral into an ever more viscous, […]
After reading Ito’s work, the one thing not emphasized as clearly as Turkle’s perspective is the concept of how self-development in young people is affected by technology. Turkel’s “I share therefore I am” speaks […]
I understand your concept of humans being always already tied to their tools- throughout history- as a mechanism of life management and persistence. But one differential point made by Turkel which I think seems […]
The discussion this week on deploying technology to understand selfhood and experience make for an interesting comparison with the facebook manifesto from last week. Could Viegner’s seemingly tedious list-based […]
I also felt it was difficult to know what could be taken from Viegner’s story. But was it meant to even be read as a such? Although there were moments of engaging clarity within the “randomness”, I am not sure the […]
“Memoir works like a kind of interactive remembering – where the screen prompts the construction of memory itself.” (7)
I think Miller’s statement here on the way reading someone else’s memoir excites one’s own […]
McCarthy Jones sets the tone for his report on the series of neuroscientfic tests being done to study brains of voice-hearers in the very beginning when he points out the terminology being used is meant to […]
Response to Yana Walton:
This is an important question of how research and treatment protocols are funded as relevant in assessing how the narrative of the mentally is constructed, or if this is even possible. As […]
This is an interesting question you pose about how Damasio (as purveyor of neuroscientific methodology), might assign value to social or cultural influences on the consciousness or […]
I found McCarthy-Jones’ comparative outline of qualitative research literature with Romme’s emancipation approach provided a framework from which to absorb the significance of Wray’s work of fiction. McCarthy […]
Response to Samantha Gamble:
I also thought the correlation between Bechdel’s understanding of her sexuality arising as she began to learn the components of her father’s sexual history, habits and events was very […]
Response to John Guinta:
I really appreciate your “Disability Studies” lens for the introspection it engenders, no matter the author or work we are looking at! In this construct it seems you employ disability […]
This week’s readings enter into an entirely different examination on the possibilities for understanding the self from a psychological, sociological and philosophical perspective inclusive of the concepts of […]
Your notation of Noe’s central hypotheses that consciousness is not a state but an action brings to mind the question of disciplinary lens here. Because consciousness is so mysterious […]
John Giunta:
The additive lens through which the existential experience of others, (deemed out of the “normal” realm of physiological, psychological or other function), holds value is so important in this […]
Blackmore’s lecture on the concept of self being an illusion or simply not being what we think it is was more interesting than convincing. It would seem that when […]
Firstly, I am not certain which portion of my consciousness to thank, but I find myself reading Damasio’s work in a semblance of his voice, or what I may have interpreted from viewing prior class videos. His […]
Response to Ruperta’s Post:
Your account of your own experience with what sounds like it began as an intractable and mysterious affliction and was finally revealed as a defined condition speaks to the issue of […]
