On Words With Resonance
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On Words With Resonance: Alva Noë’s “Varieties Of Presence”
“Experience, in the large, and in the small, is complex and manifold; it is always an encounter with hidden complexity. Experience is fractal in this sense. Perceptual experience extends to the hidden. In a way, for perception, everything is hidden. Nothing is given.” -Alva Noë, Varieties Of Presence (2012, p. 19) Continue reading
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On Words With Resonance: Janet Malcolm’s “Thoughts On Autobiography From An Abandoned Autobiography”
“Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clearly. Memory does not narrate or render character. Memory has no regard for the reader. If an autobiography is to be even minimally readable, the autobiographer must step in and subdue what you could call memory’s autism, its passion for the tedious. He must not be Continue reading
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On Words With Resonance: Matthew B. Crawford’s “The World Beyond Your Head”
“The musician’s power of expression is founded upon a prior obedience. To what? To her teacher, perhaps, but this isn’t the main thing–there is such thing as the self-taught musician. Her obedience rather is to the mechanical realities of her instrument.” -Matthew B. Crawford, The World Beyond Your Head (2015), p. 128 Continue reading
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