“In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.” SelfConsciousnessMeditationCivilizationPerceptionConsciousDetailsFormerNarrativeThoughtfulRealisticIntensityEnjoyableDiscontentSelf ConsciousPersonal ExperiencesDensitySerbiaYugoslaviaCroatiaGlobetrotters Author:Josip Novakovich
“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.” WayDoeSelfFeelingsTurnsProcessMy OwnAttentionBrainConsciousnessCasesExampleParticularSupposed To BeSelf ConsciousForeheadsSelf Consciousness Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.” TryingMaySelfTodayConsciousnessSlipsSelf ConsciousSelf Consciousness Author:Gilbert Ryle
“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.” KnowsWorldBookSelfDreamDesireTermBornConsciousnessStandardsNew WorldSelf ConsciousSelf ConsciousnessStandards Set Author:Peter Abrahams
“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.” KindMeanArtSelfTodayArtistChallengesConsciousnessMaterialsConsciousMethodInstrumentsSensibilitySelf ConsciousModifying Author:Susan Sontag
“I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.” ThinkingFeelsSelfConsciousnessPaintingConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Julian Schnabel
“If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingSelfHappensTogetherEnjoyConsciousnessStageFrontsNormalConsciousOvercomingBlowWideTendenciesThings To DoSelf ConsciousDoing YouSelf ConsciousnessNormal Things Author:Bruce Springsteen