In his medium, language is secondary; self-reflection can cost hundredths or tenths of a second.
Despite the difference in medium, the languages of Donne and Mr. Johns share many features: deliberate awkwardness, ungraceful beauty, a virtuosity so extreme that it turns weird.
This imposition of order is the work of the sensory medium of language: word sounds function as structured units (Einheiten) through which we discern and secure the mental units in the flow of impressions and images.
In metamodernism, authorship is conceived of as a metaphysical gesture whose medium is the language of reality, not the realities of language.
Dennis' neurological medium transcends the language of art, by which I mean it extends beyond the articulated signage employed with visual marks, objects, or phonetics to the experience they are intended to reference.
These are specifically the: 1. Cultural discursive arrangements, in the medium of language, that make the sayings of the practice possible; together with, 2.
The distinction between phallus and penis can be seen to carry forward Freud's own distinction between instinct and drive, since in each case the latter term indicates that the experience of the body has meaning insofar as it takes place in the medium of language and in a world of others.
While the sophistication of human humour requires the medium of language, Panksepp says he would not be surprised if positive emotions could be trigged in some animals by viewing slapstick events which they find startling or surprising.
That kind of writing — clear, direct, humane — and the reading on which it is based are the very root of the humanities, a set of disciplines that is ultimately an attempt to examine and comprehend the cultural, social and historical activity of our species through the medium of language.
We proceeded to have an oddly disjointed conversation; her speech was so stilted and hesitant that she appeared to be struggling with the medium of language.
