Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
It's also the height of #privilege and #entitlement, that you don't have to care about your #trans compatriots, you don't have to care about the #climate, that you don't have to care about #women and their right to control their own body, etc. You're going to assert your single issue, to the exclusion of all other issues, and even go backwards on that one issue
One of my grad school classes is on eco-emotions. This module we were working with grief and our assignment was to create a ritual around someone or something we were mourning. I buried the two turtles I lost this week and mourned all the beings I couldn't save this year.
Tonight, I'll be watching the final episode of #TheOffice. Whenever I finish a TV series, it feels like the end of an era. It's the same feeling I get when I complete a graphic adventure game. Somehow, it feels like it accompanied me through a phase of my life, and The Office has been a part of my evenings for many months. This is why there are some series and games I've never completed, simply because I'm too attached to them. I confess: I've never (by choice) finished Zak McKracken.
Using a unique method of topographic self-report, the authors showed maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions. It sounds simple enough - participants were shown silhouettes of bodies along with different emotional words, stories, films or facial expressions and asked to colour 🎨 in the areas of their body that they thought were more or less active when they watched each stimulus:
"Dreaming helps prioritize and diminish the severity of emotionally charged memories. Participants who reported dreaming had better recall and were less reactive to negative images.
The research suggests that dreams actively transform emotional responses by reducing next-day emotional reactivity. This could lead to interventions that enhance dreaming to aid emotional processing."
Our online study about #misophonia, #ASMR, musical #chills aka #frisson, and #musicality reactions in the general population is now accepted for a special issue at Phil Trans B on "Sensing and Feeling"! Thanks especially to editors Hirohito Kondo and Brian Moore for putting together such an exciting topic!
See link for updated pre-print on OSF.
We found a lot of things but here a few highlights:
Misophonia reactions to videos seem to be pretty common, even in people who wouldn't be diagnosed with "misophonia" The Disorder.
People who have a lot misophonia reactions to videos also have a lot of ASMR and chills reactions.
A self-report measure of general musicality does not correlate with misophonia, ASMR, or chills reactions. But stay tuned because we're doing an in person study now with both adults and kids using a wider set of music perception tasks.
"Conventionally the map is a tool which is used to locate oneself, to have certainty and proof, here the map is used to get lost…"
“These [tenderness] cards are originally an analogy between the kiss and the separation of the two banks of a river, a game between the distinction of two territories divided by a natural border and the union of the two by the presence of a valley fertile in love.
Then, from simple trompe-l’oeil comes the requirement to write a place in cartography. Each kiss presents a probable situation of human settlement depending on its geographical environment.
Finally, the utopographic appetite is what allows a real pictorial research around the pixel, the line, and the color…” #GIS#spatial#mapping#maps#cartography#illustration#emotions#art#tenderness#mapsasart#human#humaninteraction#humanconnection
Lecture pour un article de Sensible Moyen Âge. Une histoire des émotions dans l'Occident médiéval, de D. Boquet et P. Nagy
« La marque même des émotions du peuple, c’est qu’on n’y a jamais accès par son témoignage propre ; l’écran des sources est plus fort que jamais. » (p. 305)
Les entrées royales sont régulièrement évoquées 😉 et il y a de nombreuses réflexions très intéressantes, qui créent une sorte de tourbillon réflexif !