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Subjectivity
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
This nOde
last updated September 19th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
(5 Chicchan (Serpent) / 8
Ch'en (Black) - 5/260 - 12.19.11.11.5)
subjective
subjective (seb-jèk´tîv)
adjective
Abbr. subj.
1. a. Proceeding from or
taking place within a person's mind such as to be unaffected by the external
world. b. Particular to a given person; personal: subjective experience.
2. Moodily introspective.
3. Existing only in the
mind; illusory.
4. Psychology. Existing
only within the experiencer's mind.
5. Medicine. Of, relating
to, or designating a symptom or condition perceived by the patient and
not by the examiner.
6. Expressing or bringing
into prominence the individuality of the artist or author.
7. Grammar. Relating to
or being the nominative case.
8. Relating to the real
nature of something; essential.
- subjec´tively adverb
- subjec´tiveness
or sub´jectiv´ity (sùb´jèk-tîv´î-tê)
noun
Matter: Matter in general:
Immateriality
subjectivity (noun)
subjectivity, personality,
selfhood, myself, me, yours truly, self
ego, id, superego
Conscious, Unconscious
psyche, higher self, spiritual
self, spirit
Other Forms
intrinsicality: subjectiveness,
subjectivity
self: self, ego, id, identity,
selfhood, personality, subjectivity
error: subjective error,
subjectivity, unrealism, mistaken belief, wishful thinking, doublethink,
self-deceit, self-deception
fantasy: subjectivity, autosuggestion
The Commonplace
We can escape the commonplace
only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams
or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934),
Belgian Situationist philosopher. The Revolution of Everyday Life, Introduction
(1967; tr. 1983).
Subjectivity
Bias and impartiality is
in the eye of the beholder.
Lord Barnett (b. 1923),
British Conservative politician. Independent (London, 12 July 1990).
Subjectivity
Nobody, I think, ought to
read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal
more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest
merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64),
U.S. author. Hilda, in The Marble Faun, ch. 41 (1860).
Subjectivity
When you're in the muck you
can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see
the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other
things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
David
Cronenberg (b. 1943), Canadian filmmaker. Cronenberg On Cronenberg, ch.
3 (ed. by Chris Rodley, 1992).
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Subjectivity
I shut my eyes and all the
world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is
born again.
Sylvia Plath (1932-63),
U.S. poet. Mad Girl's Love Song.
Subjectivity
He that is giddy thinks the
world turns round.
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. The Widow, in The
Taming of the Shrew, act 5, sc. 2.
Subjectivity
I see every thing I paint
in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser
a guinea is more beautiful than the sun,
and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than
a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake (1757-1827), English
poet, painter, engraver. Letter, 23 Aug. 1799 (published in The Letters of William
Blake, 1956).
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Fools and Follies
In days gone by, we were
afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid
of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve
us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Jean
Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. _Cool Memories_,
ch. 4 (1987; tr. 1990).
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Those "elements," seen through the
medium of the mix - reveal to us a place where different voices, rhythms, and
tones fuse
to create a syncretic flow
of sound as externalized memory.
They become epiphenomena whose central purpose is to act as a mnemonic device:
the social construction of subjectivity is informed
by the memories that become the shared text of an attenuated media environment
made possible by a variable architecture synthesized from the tones that comprise
its forms. C.S. Pierce noted in his idea of semiosis a similar unfolding
of human expression, albeit without its cybernetic
inplications (although they are implicit in his work I believe), when he wrote
back in the 19th century "that since any thought, there must have been a thought,
has its analogue in the fact that, since any past time,
there must have been an infinite
series of times. To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant,
but requires time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted
in another, or that all thought is in signs." - DJ
Spooky
The fact that consciousness is a subjective trans-dimensional
bridge linking many realms, explains why shamanic
states cannot be measured in three-dimensional terms, although our imagined
protocols may be in some sense "objective", it is impossible to objectify the
consciousness trying to measure itself by them!
- Jim DeKorne
"I like the idea of the aesthetics
of the idea at the moment you're hearing it. Like, not that you're disagreeing
with it necessarily, it's just to be sort of taken in and processed.
Obviously, some are gonna resonate;
others, y'know--people are going to take it differently. It's all about your
own personal, highly subjective experience. I don't think it would ever be the
same for two people. "
- Richard Linklater re: _Waking
Life_ (avi)(216.4megs
in two parts)/(vhs/ntsc)
"The universe is the communion of
subjects, not a collection of objects." - _The Dream
Of The Earth_ by Thomas Berry
Groove
Lullaby...Subjective White Noise_ by Stereolab off of _Transient
Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements_ CD
on Elektra (1993)Consciousness
Part 1_ 12" by Retroflex on Soma
Recordings Limited
by Le TigreEmpire__I'm
Not Working_
by Aural Float off of _Freefloater_ CD on Elektrolux (2001)
by Ministry off of _The Land Of Rape & Honey_
12"
(1988)
truth
i know, is the look in your eyes... you've run out of lies! get out of
my life!"
by Peter Benisch off of _Soundtrack Saga_ CD on Turbo (2001) ambient
track _Subjective Loss, Day 83_ MP3
by Terre Thaemlitz off of _Soil_ on Instinct Ambient (1995)
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