These letters are great splurges of urbane speech, which at times come close to stream-of-consciousness mode.
The show might almost be parenthetically titled "museum on a couch," so clearly does the Modern seem to flop down, stare at the ceiling and mull things over, in a stream-of-consciousness mode.
Cisneros alternates between first person, third person, and stream-of-consciousness narrative modes, and ranges from brief impressionistic vignettes to longer event-driven stories, and from highly poetic language to brutally frank realist language.
This will evolve people's sense of empathy to create a biosphere-wide consciousness and a mode of production he calls distributed capitalism.
It is the founding creation of modern African imaginative literature, the opening act of exploration into African consciousness using traditional modes of expression along with those appropriated from colonial culture, particularly the English language.
It will also help to clarify how pre-reflective self-consciousness, as a mode of existence, is possible in the first place, as well as elucidate the phenomenological account of diachronic unity, an account that does not posit something called the "self" as a separate entity over and above the stream of consciousness (cf. Zahavi 2014).
In the west, the primary impact of the idea has been on literature rather than science: stream of consciousness as a narrative mode means writing in a way that attempts to portray the moment-to-moment thoughts and experiences of a character.
We are developing a completely different mode of consciousness.
Lacking artistic originality to propose or effect a shift in consciousness or a new mode of experience, they offer a constipated realism that rubs others in their filth while keeping their own hands rigorously pristine.
In these circumstances, the tension that results from expectation and that directs the mind to anticipate events and outcomes is dissipated, the spectator tires, and the mind fluctuates between waking and half-sleeping states in which the events on the stage mingle with mental fantasies to produce a new mode of consciousness.
The worry now is intelligibility: can we be confident that we can really make sense of this mode of consciousness?
