With the United States government seriously out of joint is Montaigbakhtinian also drifting—from love poems to politico-environmental posts to this? Scroll down to see all four images and commentaries (in English, en français y en español).
La pareidolia es la tendencia a ver significados en estímulos nebulosos, normalmente visuales, de modo que uno detecta un objeto o patrón donde no lo hay. (También se pueden escuchar mensajes ocultos en la música o, por ejemplo, oír voces que llegan a través de un aparato de aire acondicionado).
Los autores del Renacimiento mostraron especial interés por la pareidolia. Hamlet, por ejemplo, señala al cielo para demostrar su locura a Polonio. Hamlet: ¿Ves esa nube que casi tiene forma de camello? Creo que es una comadreja. O una ballena.
La pareidolia es un tipo de apofenia: la tendencia a percibir vínculos significativos entre cosas no relacionadas, o una sensación de significado anormal.
La apofenia puede ser un síntoma de disfunción psiquiátrica, de esquizofrenia o de paranoia.
— Photographs and commentaries by William Eaton (dipping into Wikipedia for the latter).
I believe it is common for bloggers in this day and age to append to their posts a comment such as “XYZ is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.” But Montaigbakhtinian is not in search of financial support.
Interested readers are, however, certainly urged to check out William Eaton’s books, most available via Amazon and published either by Serving House Books or Zeteo Publishing. Among these books: Art, Sex, Politics, a collection of essays (Serving House Books, 2017).
Some readers may also wish to check out the Montaigbakhtinian “page” Regarding the photos.
As for the US being
out of joint,
in a Quarter Latin café the other morning I heard an American man telling a woman, perhaps Filipina, his family history. Around the time of the Second World War, his Latvian grandparents had fled the Soviets and come to the US, his grandfather ending up logging redwoods. How many Americans’ ancestors, some of mine included, came to the US because they found life under Russian rule too brutal. And now this country is to be the US’s main ally? Americans are going to accept this? Where are our dreams?
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