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If, as we read in Don Ihde's Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, perception is global rather than atomic (that is to say each sense can be isolated and studied, rather than focused on), then, perhaps we need to reexamined the marriage of the sonic and the visual (and by extension, the concrete; not sure I would want to explore an olfative and/or gustative poetry) proposed by Mallarmé and Oyvind Fahlström. Which begs the question of the performative on the page (visual poetry) and the performative on the stage (sound poetry). One way to reconciliate them is of course Claude Royet-Journoud and Anne-Marie Albiach's theater.
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Red Light! Green Light! said…
Actually, the storage of sensory information determines perception. Say perhaps, your culture lacks a written language. Or you learned to read late in childhood due to dyslexia. Or you recently returned from a tour of duty in Houyhnhnms' country. Using MRI or PET scans demonstrate differences in brain activity to similar stimuli across cultures. The only consistant similarities of brain activity occur in monozygotic twins. No one else. Very little. Even then, by chance. Perception is ideographic, not nomotheic. Not global. Furthermore, phenomenology and early cognitive science ended in quasi mysticism, almost a religion appart from itself. Didn't Derrida dispell the transcendent signifier which represtented the thing in and of itself? Or did he simply claim they were a series of self sucessions, none an entity alone in themselves? Were these signifiers apart from the object of study? How could he seperate the object from its context, from its ecology? Ok Ok. Husserl and Derrida are dead. Transcended their own signifiers. Both their studies, I believe, will later be recognized as memory theory.
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François Luong said…
The use of technology to study perception has some truth, yes, but that is completely contingent on what I am thinking about here. That is to say, it might explain how it works, but does not mean much in terms of individual perception. Nor am I interested in a overarching statement, such as in scientific discourse.

And when I write of a globality of senses, I do not mean that senses have an equal footing. This would go against what Ihde writes. Rather, even when I focus mostly on one of my senses, the others are still at play too.
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