rolandi@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM (rolandi) (03/09/88)
Regarding: In article <1979@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes: >>When I posted my original question about (schizophrenic/ >>post-structuralist/post-modern/??) perception I was >>sort of hoping to hear about books that I might read that >>refered to my experience: Mcluhan, Kroker, Chambers, Foster, >>Kern, Venturi, Turkle, Lowe, Foucault, Eco come to mind >>as writers who bounce off of these feelings in one >>way or another. >Ok, I'll bite: in what way exactly do those authors bounce off of those >feelings (which, I seem to recall, had to do with a preference for switching >TV channels over reading long books)? Perhaps those feelings were actually misperceived walls. Psychology has arrived on USENET. Walter Rolandi rolandi@gollum.UUCP NCR Advanced Systems, Columbia, SC University of South Carolina Departments of Psychology and Linguistics
eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman) (03/09/88)
In article <64@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM-> rolandi@gollum.UUCP () writes: ->Perhaps those feelings were actually misperceived walls. Psychology has ->arrived on USENET. Here's the original order of appearance: In article <1904@phoenix.Princeton.EDU-> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes: -> ->In general, I've been noticing that I am changing the modes by ->which I communicate. For example, when I want to ->find out about something, reading feels less ->comfortable than does watching tv. ->I get the sense that reading is less vital and available than it ->seems to have been in the past, while the availability of tv seems to ->be constantly increasing. Even the act of writing these feelings ->down seems inappropriate -- negating the experience that I am trying to ->describe. [some time passes ...] In article <1979@phoenix.Princeton.EDU-> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes: ->When I posted my original question about (schizophrenic/ ->post-structuralist/post-modern/??) perception I was ->sort of hoping to hear about books that I might read that ->refered to my experience: Mcluhan, Kroker, Chambers, Foster, ->Kern, Venturi, Turkle, Lowe, Foucault, Eco come to mind ->as writers who bounce off of these feelings in one ->way or another. I take it they're showing reruns of Foucault on cable TV.