Date: September 7, 2017
"Like one of Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Rooms,' my consciousness, and that of the women I knew, gained new dimensions."
preview | full record— Adams, Carol J. (b. 1951)
Date: December 4, 2017
"Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds."
preview | full record— Pitzer, Andrea
Date: December 10, 2017
"Writing to Wilhelm Fleiss in 1896, Freud used the word Nachträglichkeit --'retranscription'--to describe the brain's action of calling up a memory and revising it in response to fresh circumstances."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
Date: December 10, 2017
"As this can happen many times in a life, a memory might be described as having a kind of geological history, with different stratifications going back through time, 'representing the psychic achievement of successive epochs of life.'"
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
Date: December 10, 2017
"To fill oneself with the consciousness of others, and then to forget deeply enough, and long enough, that the collective world can be welded to what is unique and original to oneself--this is as precise and moving a definition of creativity as I have come across."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)
Date: January 8, 2019
"When they discover the anti-Semitism of Wharton or Dostoyevsky, the racism of Walt Whitman or Joseph Conrad, the sexism of Ernest Hemingway or Richard Wright, the class snobbery of E. M. Forster or Virginia Woolf, not all of them express their repugnance as dramatically as the student I talked t...
preview | full record— Morton, Brian (b. July 8, 1955)
Date: February 21, 2019
"A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"I cared about the feeling that my thoughts were being dictated. I cared about the collective head, which seemed to be running a fever. But if we managed to escape, to break out of the great skull and into the fresh air, if Twitter was shut down for crimes against humanity, what would we be losing?"
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"Previously these communities were imposed on us, along with their mental weather."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia