dear somenotions,
i find your comments (re:'chroniclism' in clinomania's august 17 blogspot) interesting and true to an extent, but i fear i might be guilty of similar tendencies myself. in order to spare myself some cognitive dissonance i will therefore argue that it is not necessarily up to the chronicler to decide what portions of his experience are significant for an audience, because indeed someone in that audience might appreciate something that clinomania himself might find entirely insignificant. and furthermore, that raises an important question - if he bothers to record it at all, does that not imply some sort of significance beyond something he does not record? personally i am in favor of recording everything, but that is not only impossible practically, it is impossible cognitively. so as not to be overrun with stimuli, the brain automatically employs sensory gating mechanisms to filter out irrelevant information, whether it be visual, auditory, etc. certainly this can be mediated by directed attentional processes. however, no perception or observation is insignificant, because if it is consciously perceived at all, it has won out over a slew of other potential perceptual stimuli that constantly bombard the nervous system that are not perceived. the significance of the act of recording or retelling is secondary to the initial significance of the fact that some thing or other has made its way into not only consciousness but long term memory. clinomania's observations of brown bunny posters may mean nothing to you, or even him, but i can tell you that because of that blog entry, i went to vincent gallo's website (i'd heard of him before, but only in the context of his flapping around new york trying to convince people that he and chloe sevigny are somehow interesting) and learned that he really is dumb, like i thought! check out "the big schlep," an essay for dutch magazine, writing section, vincentgallo.com.
sincerely,
elena in los angeles
i find your comments (re:'chroniclism' in clinomania's august 17 blogspot) interesting and true to an extent, but i fear i might be guilty of similar tendencies myself. in order to spare myself some cognitive dissonance i will therefore argue that it is not necessarily up to the chronicler to decide what portions of his experience are significant for an audience, because indeed someone in that audience might appreciate something that clinomania himself might find entirely insignificant. and furthermore, that raises an important question - if he bothers to record it at all, does that not imply some sort of significance beyond something he does not record? personally i am in favor of recording everything, but that is not only impossible practically, it is impossible cognitively. so as not to be overrun with stimuli, the brain automatically employs sensory gating mechanisms to filter out irrelevant information, whether it be visual, auditory, etc. certainly this can be mediated by directed attentional processes. however, no perception or observation is insignificant, because if it is consciously perceived at all, it has won out over a slew of other potential perceptual stimuli that constantly bombard the nervous system that are not perceived. the significance of the act of recording or retelling is secondary to the initial significance of the fact that some thing or other has made its way into not only consciousness but long term memory. clinomania's observations of brown bunny posters may mean nothing to you, or even him, but i can tell you that because of that blog entry, i went to vincent gallo's website (i'd heard of him before, but only in the context of his flapping around new york trying to convince people that he and chloe sevigny are somehow interesting) and learned that he really is dumb, like i thought! check out "the big schlep," an essay for dutch magazine, writing section, vincentgallo.com.
sincerely,
elena in los angeles
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damn it, i think you already said something like that in this entry.
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damn it, i think you already said something like that in this entry.
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