Mr. Haynes, switching styles, colors, film stocks and editing rhythms with unnerving ease (and with the crucial help of Jay Rabinowitz and Edward Lachman, the editor and the director of photography), has held his cerebral and his visceral impulses in perfect balance.
Whether set in her native South Africa, in the United States or on unnamed islands, her fiction follows women driven by their visceral impulses, women who live in worlds where men matter, where looks matter, where sex matters -- a lot.
High quality human attention is a scarce resource; and whenever it is in short supply, the universal human tendency is to fall back on what Kahneman calls "heuristics": snap judgements based on assumptions and shortcuts, not to mention more visceral impulses and appetites. .
Even then, as adolescents bursting with carnal curiosity and boundless physical energy, he was romantic, interested in girls beyond visceral impulses.
Together with these mathematics, we get an utterly visceral dance impulse.
What the book taps, says Kobek, is a visceral emotional impulse he encountered frequently on his just-concluded national book tour, its ranting tone and merciless humor attempting to offset a feeling of powerlessness commonly felt by internet users The book defines this as "intellectual feudalism produced by technological innovation arriving in the disguise of culture".
If the Ron Paul who had arrived at Gettysburg was a bundle of visceral conservative political impulses in search of an intellectual framework, he found it at Duke through his extracurricular reading.
Romney represents the ultra-organized, overly measured and methodical aspect of the Republican establishment, while Gingrich is hyper-instinctual and visceral, the untrammeled raw impulses of the conservative movement's emotional core incarnated.
The current show attempts to go back behind Moore's smooth beneficent public face to the secret impulses that prompted this visceral response.
