presence
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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 Presence And Perception
“When I look at the world now, my posture is not one of focus but rather of attention.” – Robert Irwin At the heart of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name Of the Thing One Sees (1982/2009), Lawrence Weschler’s biography of the artist Robert Irwin, are two intertwined and reoccurring ideas: presence and perception. Irwin (1928-), Continue reading

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