Kopiert von der Website des New Yorker. Nein, ich bin kein Freund oder auch nur Leser des New Yorker (nicht mehr). Seit vier Jahren bloss noch ein moralisierendes Jakobinerblättchen. Aber was gut ist, ist gut. Z.B. diese Amazon Reviews von Fran Lebowitz. Von der L. habe ich schon vor 20 Jahren Bücher gekauft. Ich weiss, von was ich rede. Also hier ein Beispiel von diesen Reviews (sie sind nicht für Bücher, sondern für allerlei unsinniges Gerät. Offenbar hat sie Zeit und Muse, das bei A. durchzugehen.

Paper Shredder (Amazon Basics)

Do you work for the C.I.A.? No?

Then let me save you some time—keep your documents in one piece.

Trust me. No one is rooting through your garbage. No one cares.

Once you learn that, everything in life will make sense. No one cares.

About you. Or about anything.

Mehr davon

Langsam etwas mehr Herbst als Sommer.

Western psychology holds that humans are not born with a sense of self, but rather that the self is constructed over time, gradually emerging within the first two years of life. Further, much scientific research says that everything that exists in human awareness – sight, sound, even time itself – is all a construction of the mind. So what are the pitfalls of treating these constructs as objective truths? According to Mahāmudrā Buddhist teaching, explored here by the clinical psychologist Daniel Brown at Harvard University, the more enamoured we are of our selves, the more fixed we are in our own ‘realities’, limiting the possibilities of our awareness. Playing with these reflections on the self and awareness, the San Francisco-based animator Claudia Biçen uses a series of ink-and-pencil portraits of Brown to bring him into being and then let him disappear.