Mackenzie Gilstrap
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Mackenzie Gilstrap
“Places are ingested into the body, being literally embodied, when food is eaten.”
-Ben Coles
“In some cases, the place, more specifically the atmosphere of the place, is more influential than the product itself in the purchase decision. In some cases, the atmosphere is the primary product.”
Philip Kotler characterizes atmosphere as intentional, a rhetorical and affective art. “Atmospherics is the effort to design buying environments to
... See moreLook, feel, and sound are not “of a place,” rather they rhetorically construct a place.
“Place is not fixed. It is a an emergent process of assemblage is social, material, and discursive relationships come into being through the interdependence and interrelation of other geographical process such as the social, cultural, economic, ecological, and
... See moreA master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To... See more
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
The Self Illusion - Why There's No 'You' Inside Your Head - Prof Bruce Hood
youtube.com“As long as we frame a worldview with language that refers to the wild as a commodity, it will be treated as one. It is likewise damaging to invoke technology-based metaphors to explain nature: the brain a computer, the earth a spaceship, the rooted and fungal soil beneath our feet a kind of internet. Such mechanistic phrasing unwittingly invites
... See more“The self is an emergent property, an illusion.”
— Bruce Hood
“But whether we are distancing our self from the herd, or ingratiating our self as part of the herd, it is the existence of others that defines who we are.”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the... See more