CUNY Academic Commons | Yana Walton | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ywalton/activity/ Activity feed for Yana Walton. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5122a4141d4369ac18ab71bacaa109b4 Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/20/asking-the-right-questions/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:52:06 -0500 Conversations about human connection and technology usually fall within two predictable camps: Those who lament the lack of “real face time” connection, the false promise of more time, betrayed by the eternal […]

]]> cc5f9a63943b5069372c7c1dfb5c7c6e Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/06/i-couldnt-help-it-25-3/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:16:51 -0500 1. I’m not sure I could ever live up to the possibility of being authentic for an audience – real or imaginary.
2. I think everyone’s just like me in that respect. It doesn’t even matter if you know who’s […]

]]> eb3ac2656e5f3491ea1680b30b79f30b Yana Walton commented on the post, Making the right question. , on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/29/making-the-right-question/#comment-280 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:26:08 -0400 While I too greatly enjoyed May’s video, I agree with your implication that May might be making an unfounded assumption in the “recognition of the fact that insistent voices must have something important to say.” […]

]]> 8c7e89d18d882b9ce52390286589be2f Yana Walton commented on the post, Understanding the Voices, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/30/understanding-the-voices/#comment-279 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:20:38 -0400 I was excited to see mindfulness practice being used as a way to mediate the experiences of voice hearing, and to think about the information that voices can tell us about trauma, memory, and resilience. However, […]

]]> c6b9fee57ac50fed19c46a2999032d46 Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/22/hvn-hiv/ Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:42:36 -0400 The contrast between reading about research being done on neurobiological processes and treatment of heard voices (TMS, antipsychotic drugs, lateral processing, connectivity, & neuro-stimulation studies) and the […]

]]> c8d621495150518661771d1cab325f5c Yana Walton and Jason Tougaw (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/231590/ Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:24:06 -0400 82d653cf5d7271669d08ebe2c9803e85 Yana Walton commented on the post, Climate Crisis, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/14/climate-crisis/#comment-165 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:10:50 -0400 I too thought your question about locating a schizophrenic person’s autobiographical self/narrative was really interesting. As I read Lowboy, I also thought about a certain dislocatedness of William’s self that […]

]]> 2bdcfbd23da90a20b3a0ebeb5ff203c6 Yana Walton commented on the post, Lowboy, McCarthy-Jones, Foucault, Hustvedt (with undertones of Noe)...too much coffee, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/16/lowboy-mccarthy-foucault-hustvedt-too-much-coffee/#comment-164 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:59:08 -0400 I like your idea of Lowboy re-entering the world when he starts experiencing the symptoms of schizophrenia. In some ways, the world re-enters him too, as his perception of the world changes. Violet and Richard […]

]]> 6767cd52f09b065e34e1f44d2600fb91 Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/08/485/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:01:27 -0400 Thumbnail“As we construct the past to create a narrative that makes sense to us, we give birth to characters who personify key aspects of the self…..wherein characters “are born” or “come onto the stage.” It is often at […]

]]> 18394262aeffc27860d1d1af39bfacf6 Yana Walton commented on the post, Understanding the Myth, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/02/understanding-the-myth/#comment-74 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:19:14 -0400 I really appreciated his discussion of Margaret’s story as a myth because in our stories of selves, we pick and choose which pieces are salient – the highly charged ones, and create truth from those events. Those […]

]]> 3ab7ff5f34d16de6bc94f38f037fd792 Yana Walton commented on the post, Narrative and Mr. Finston (Me!), on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/01/424/#comment-73 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:03:17 -0400 I’m glad you brought up the question of where truth-claims on the self come from, as I agree that empirical, scientific research on the brain has held the privileged position of creating the most valued knowledge […]

]]> c374bcfad0eac829c645904e96461b2d Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/24/out-of-our-heads/ Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:48:51 -0400 My blurb on this book if I were a super cheesy book reviewer: Out of Our Heads is a breath of fresh air among the neuroscience literature we’ve explored so far. Noë’s facility with simple yet highly effective […]

]]> fefa342aefd07aaa2959c07551b12ad1 Yana Walton commented on the post, The 'Conscious' Performance, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/17/the-conscious-performance/#comment-43 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 04:24:40 -0400 I’m also in agreement with you: The way that such seemingly miraculous physiological processes and their accompanying revolutionary theories has often amounted to a linear presentation of dry details has felt a […]

]]> 01e919fc339636039fcc0dc2353cfd9e Yana Walton commented on the post, Siri Hustevedt's The Shaking Woman: Body/Self, on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/10/siri-hustevedts-the-shaking-woman-bodyself/#comment-20 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:11:33 -0400 Thank you both for your thoughts on our little human conundrum!

I think the project of self discovery is never fully answerable, so when Hustevedt found some acceptance in the fact all these empirical […]

]]> fd2ccfe4417bb45b1cecf8c8578b2a56 Yana Walton wrote a new post on the site Inventing the Self http://inventingself.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/10/siri-hustevedts-the-shaking-woman-bodyself/ Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:52:04 -0400 Hustevedt’s chosen form and frame carried me along her reading of her body and of a self forged from pain, through a deeply personal quest to understand the relationship of body to self, where contradictions […]

]]> 1945327f34ac8a0cb0aef9ad8b4b2442 Yana Walton changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/217516/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:51:45 -0400 8fa67a5aff533935003bdd1548c55d7a Yana Walton became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/217515/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:46:51 -0400