Michele Pasin / Quotes

Eventi che si sviluppano in verticale

Pensavo che alcuni eventi hanno uno sviluppo verticale, più che orizzontale: gesto sopra gesto sopra gesto e percezione sopra percezione sopra percezione, compressi nello spazio di un istante. Per capirli e dargli un ordine dobbiamo scomporre la sovrapposizione e disporre ogni singolo elemento lungo una linea, ed è sempre un’operazione un po’ arbitraria.

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#time #perception #narratives

Episodics and diachronics

Strawson is perhaps best known for his articulation of one such axis of variability in persons, between short- and long-termers, or what he calls episodics…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #time #personality #narratives

No narrative sense of self

He has a sense of his self, but he doesn’t identify this with this persisting human animal. He’s relatively indifferent to its past and future, and this is…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #narratives #time

The story that keeps us together

Sense of self over time is therefore ‘the story that we tell ourselves that keeps us together.’

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #story #narratives #time

The apartment looked wrong

The apartment looked wrong. Normally I loved its raffishness, but now both apartment and its contents looked seedy to the point of being sinister. Gazing…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #perception #time #place

Events give collection objects their meaning

The main building blocks in the interpretation process of history and collection objects are historical events and the relations between these events and the…

Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage #historical-events #narratives #historical-context #collection-objects #meaning

First hypertext systems: afternoon

The literary publisher Eastgate Systems distinguishes its products from both pornographics "web soaps" and games by calling them "serious hypertext". The…

Hamlet On The Holodeck #lexias #narratives