Comments on: In My Head http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head I'm full of tinier media! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:46:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Multi Medium » Why I Like Science Fiction http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-62191 Multi Medium » Why I Like Science Fiction Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:26:53 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-62191 [...] This is exactly why I love sci-fi and have so much trouble reading regular fi - I’m fascinated by the universes that the writers create.  The what-ifs, the concepts, the richness and complexity and otherness of it.  I’ve read stories where people can create specialized one-day duplicates of themselves whose memories they can download before the duplicates expire (Kiln People); where everyone’s brain is backed up to a hard drive and can be re-inserted into a new “sleeve” if they die (Altered Carbon); where entropy works in reverse so that everything improves with use (The Practice Effect); where intelligent spaceships pose frozen passengers in historical dioramas (Excession); where aliens spell out messages with human pimples (oops, that was the Weekly World News).  And I’ve already gone on at length about Queen Of Angels. [...] [...] This is exactly why I love sci-fi and have so much trouble reading regular fi - I’m fascinated by the universes that the writers create.  The what-ifs, the concepts, the richness and complexity and otherness of it.  I’ve read stories where people can create specialized one-day duplicates of themselves whose memories they can download before the duplicates expire (Kiln People); where everyone’s brain is backed up to a hard drive and can be re-inserted into a new “sleeve” if they die (Altered Carbon); where entropy works in reverse so that everything improves with use (The Practice Effect); where intelligent spaceships pose frozen passengers in historical dioramas (Excession); where aliens spell out messages with human pimples (oops, that was the Weekly World News).  And I’ve already gone on at length about Queen Of Angels. [...]

]]> By: flawedplan http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7948 flawedplan Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:00:59 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7948 Oh Eli you're not talking out of your ass at all, this was great, your approach of this complex material, and respectful for all you left out. My first visit here comes via a link at firedoglake, and this post caught my eye, as I am active in psychiatric rights and reform, and the NYT has been doing fabulous work in this regard the last few months. I am so glad the story caught your interest, this is what is needed, personal narrative by regular, non-diagnosed people who are interested in the workings of the mind, and not afraid to run with their musings and speculation. The activist world of severe and persistent mental illness is a partisan and tribal clusterfuck of competing dogmas among people who have been laughed out of society, and I'm used to seeing us otherized when reasonable beings analyze the freaks, which is easier to do than think about the condition some humans get into of perplexing and extreme mental states, which is better, and what you did here and what I am praising, hooray. Oh Eli you’re not talking out of your ass at all, this was great, your approach of this complex material, and respectful for all you left out.

My first visit here comes via a link at firedoglake, and this post caught my eye, as I am active in psychiatric rights and reform, and the NYT has been doing fabulous work in this regard the last few months. I am so glad the story caught your interest, this is what is needed, personal narrative by regular, non-diagnosed people who are interested in the workings of the mind, and not afraid to run with their musings and speculation.

The activist world of severe and persistent mental illness is a partisan and tribal clusterfuck of competing dogmas among people who have been laughed out of society, and I’m used to seeing us otherized when reasonable beings analyze the freaks, which is easier to do than think about the condition some humans get into of perplexing and extreme mental states, which is better, and what you did here and what I am praising, hooray.

]]> By: Eli http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7915 Eli Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:40:58 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7915 Oh yeah, the Central Consciousness is *all about* the interior monologue, and it does occasionally say some mortifying things. And the Inner Wingnut? I have an Inner Contrarian which immediately marshals up counterarguments to any argument I make, whether political or otherwise. It's sort of handy, and sort of undermining... Oh yeah, the Central Consciousness is *all about* the interior monologue, and it does occasionally say some mortifying things.

And the Inner Wingnut? I have an Inner Contrarian which immediately marshals up counterarguments to any argument I make, whether political or otherwise. It’s sort of handy, and sort of undermining…

]]> By: Interrobang http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7885 Interrobang Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:37:53 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7885 I've had a running interior monologue for years. It has long since stopped bothering me, and a lot of the time, I don't even notice it. The part of my interior monologue I hate is when I'm reading some liberal argument and this voice (call it my Inner Wingnut) pipes up to tell me exactly what the wingnut response would be. (In some ways, that's a valuable tool to have, because when I'm writing my own stuff, I can short-circuit objections before they appear. I don't care for it as running editorial commentary, though.) If we're talking about weird inside-the-head phenomena, I'm also synaesthesiac. I really dig the colours of certain music. I'm just glad I'm not one of those people who sees letters as colours, though... I’ve had a running interior monologue for years. It has long since stopped bothering me, and a lot of the time, I don’t even notice it. The part of my interior monologue I hate is when I’m reading some liberal argument and this voice (call it my Inner Wingnut) pipes up to tell me exactly what the wingnut response would be. (In some ways, that’s a valuable tool to have, because when I’m writing my own stuff, I can short-circuit objections before they appear. I don’t care for it as running editorial commentary, though.)

If we’re talking about weird inside-the-head phenomena, I’m also synaesthesiac. I really dig the colours of certain music. I’m just glad I’m not one of those people who sees letters as colours, though…

]]> By: Ripley http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7795 Ripley Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:15:34 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7795 I've always said: "I don't mind the voices in my head - I just wish they'd get my name right." Creatively, I'm completely tapped out, lately. I guess I should order some Absinthe. Then you'll see - you'll all see! I’ve always said: “I don’t mind the voices in my head - I just wish they’d get my name right.”

Creatively, I’m completely tapped out, lately. I guess I should order some Absinthe. Then you’ll see - you’ll all see!

]]> By: Eli http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7750 Eli Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:06:26 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7750 Jalapenos? Jalapenos?

]]> By: elmo http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7749 elmo Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:01:48 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7749 I'm not sure what triggers the "fire under my ass"; so to speak, but it would be nice to be able to call on it whenever I liked... I’m not sure what triggers the “fire under my ass”; so to speak, but it would be nice to be able to call on it whenever I liked…

]]> By: Eli http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7742 Eli Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:48:24 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7742 Dude, I'm pretty sure you can fall out of bed and take good photos looking up at the bed. Dude, I’m pretty sure you can fall out of bed and take good photos looking up at the bed.

]]> By: charley http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7741 charley Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:43:12 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7741 at least your not a "looser". i just count on getting lucky. so far that has not worked out so well. "Thinking, thinking, stupid thoughts." Fyodor Dostoevsky at least your not a “looser”.

i just count on getting lucky.

so far that has not worked out so well.

“Thinking, thinking, stupid thoughts.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

]]> By: Eli http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head#comment-7738 Eli Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:34:38 +0000 http://multi-medium.net/2007/03/26/in-my-head/#comment-7738 Aw, shucks, lolo. Thank you so much. I can only manage a halfway decent non-political rant maybe one a year or so... Aw, shucks, lolo. Thank you so much. I can only manage a halfway decent non-political rant maybe one a year or so…

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