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this seems to be taking some basic material from cognitive linguistics---which has been developed as a way of describing cognition and its mediations in a context shaped by embodiment as a point of departure---and turning into a self-help regimen simply by reversing the signs on the descriptions---so if cognition works in direction (a) we can change our actions by initiating procedure -(a).
i understand the idea, but i don't think shifting from description to action-modification is so simple a matter as just reversing the signs.
but the cognitive neuroscience/linguistics research materials is really interesting---the quackery part comes in the sign reversal.
and this is not to say that there are no implications of this research for politics or art-making: it's just not that easy.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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