Mind & Language
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 On Nostalgia |
On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially … | David Berry | 161 | 2020 | View |
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From IntroductionPlay It Once Again From: On Nostalgia |
The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Nameless Uncarved WoodFrom: The Web of Meaning |
Traditional Chinese and Greek philosophy of mind is discussed, along with the insights of modern neuroscience. The chapter describes the role of the pre-frontal cortex as the executive function, … | Jeremy Lent | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:On the Why of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe … | David Berry | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance From: The Power Manual |
Interaction Patterns, highlights the thinking of Audre Lorde, Roland Barthes, and Franz Fanon. Lorde identified difference as the key factor that triggers power dynamics, or unequal interactions. … | Cyndi Suarez | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From Spineless AdmirationOn Anti-Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … | David Berry | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! The Most Important Relationship in Your LifeFrom: The Web of Meaning |
How the "I" and the "self" split apart early in human evolution is viewed as a defining characteristic of humanity. The differences between I and self are discussed, along … | Jeremy Lent | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From I’m Just So Tired of All These Star WarsOn Art and Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … | David Berry | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! The Patterns of the UniverseFrom: The Web of Meaning |
The chapter begins with the paradox of the Ship of Theseus, and continues with the the philosophy of flux of the Pre-Socratics and of the Song Dynasty of China. How things can be in constant flux … | Jeremy Lent | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects From: The Power Manual |
Transmission of Affect, focuses on the work of Theresa Brennan. Brennan used research from the field of psychoneuroendocrinology, the study of hormones and their relationship to behavior, to … | Cyndi Suarez | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From Great AgainOn Political Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced WorldOn Consumed Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Both nostalgia and consumerism satisfy a longing, an attempt to satisfy impossible desires. Consumerism, as in the most important role for a person is somone who buys things, and a history of … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … | David Berry | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From ConclusionThe Memory of Ourselves From: On Nostalgia |
Nostalgia is an acutely modern condition. As our future seems more in doubt, our past seems to offer more clarity and comfort. Beyond that, nostalgia helps us reconcile the dissonence of our … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner Experience From: The Power Manual |
Supreme Choice, furthers the thinking on Supreme Power introduced in chapter 5. It concludes the section on choice by asserting that one ultimately has choice over everything one experiences. It … | Cyndi Suarez | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status Characters From: The Power Manual |
Theater as Interaction and Identity Creation, explores the first of two social spaces that at their core are about the exchange of power — theater and games. Fundamentally, to act is to … | Cyndi Suarez | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
