Tag: psychology
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Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system…
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Seeing Things
Doug Skinner talks about Pareidolia at The Ullage Group: We have a remarkable ability to see patterns where there are none, to see pictures in clouds, smoke, and rocks. We’re particularly prone to see faces, perhaps because facial recognition is such an important survival skill . . . skills that will increase our enjoyment…
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Deconstruction and Ghosts
Literary Kicks’ Levi Asher says, “I’ve spent a week surfing his works and reading the exciting biography Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters (as recommended to me by a commenter to last weekend’s Derrida post). I now realize how ridiculous it is that I’ve never studied Derrida or the other deconstructionists and poststructuralists before, since they cover many of…