CHAPTER 3 DISTURBANCES IN DISTANCE Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Patient: Yes, we all have perspectives, everyone does, and then you have to ask the perspective spirit to help you find a home you can live in, if you don’t have one, and so… Interviewer: Where is …
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Madness and Modernism: LANGUAGE OF INWARDNESS
CHAPTER 4 LANGUAGE OF INWARDNESS Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Marian: I’m responsible for my own motives. I keep my mouth closed and my nose open. Nurse: Can you say things a bit more clearly to let us know what’s going on? Marian: Just ask my autograph …
Madness and Modernism: SCHIZOPHRENIC THOUGHT
CHAPTER 1 SCHIZOPHRENIC THOUGHT Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Schizophrenic thinking: Von Dormarus called schizophrenic reasoning paralogical because patients would call stags and Indians braves the same thing because they were fast. Arieti called this mode of thinking “paleological” because it, in essence, was the result of …
Performance Studies Notes #2: J.L. Austin
J.L. Austin How to do Things with Words, 1962 J.L. Austin (1911-1960 in England, lectures delivered at Harvard) Performance theory deemphasized dramatic textuality and language, so performativity in performance studies is a return to the linguistic—resistant to the notion of text and theater—words spoken in a very particular context. Austin attacks the view that the …