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From: eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: off the wall
Message-ID: <1984@mind.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 01:02:04 GMT
References: <64@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM->
Reply-To: eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman)
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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In article <64@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM-> rolandi@gollum.UUCP () writes:
->Perhaps those feelings were actually misperceived walls.  Psychology has
->arrived on USENET.



Here's the original order of appearance:

In article <1904@phoenix.Princeton.EDU-> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C
Hajdu) writes:
->
->In general, I've been noticing that I am changing the modes by
->which I communicate. For example, when I want to 
->find out about something, reading feels less
->comfortable than does watching tv. 
->I get the sense that reading is less vital and available than it
->seems to have been in the past, while the availability of tv seems to 
->be constantly increasing. Even the act of writing these feelings
->down seems inappropriate -- negating the experience that I am trying to 
->describe.

[some time passes ...]

In article <1979@phoenix.Princeton.EDU-> tom@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Thomas C Hajdu) writes:
->When I posted my original question about (schizophrenic/
->post-structuralist/post-modern/??) perception I was
->sort of hoping to hear about books that I might read that
->refered to my experience: Mcluhan, Kroker, Chambers, Foster,
->Kern, Venturi, Turkle, Lowe, Foucault, Eco come to mind
->as writers who bounce off of these feelings in one
->way or another.

I take it they're showing reruns of Foucault on cable TV.