The Intervening Mind considers the effect of intrapersonal communication, or inner speech, on attention. The nature of inner speech is that it is multitudinous, a polyphonic (and possibly incoherent) interweaving dialogue between one’s inner thoughts and the exterior world. It’s integral to emotional processing, decision-making, and the formation of memory, but it can act as a distracting force. Inner speech can interfere with your ability to concentrate on what you’re reading, or what another person is saying. We’ll dive into the role inner speech plays in our understanding of time unfolding, of focus, and of the fallacy of multitasking.
- This episode of Something Like was made on the occasion of Intimate Connections, streaming in-situ in the Resonance Room at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, part of the exhibition YOYI, Repair, Care, Heal.
Tracklist
Robert Beatty, Side A, Breathing Meditation
Gia Margaret, No Sleep No Dream, Mia Gargaret, 2020
Junichi Kamiyama (神山純一), 水色の幻想 (Illusions Of Blue), Aqualy Dew (水の音楽), 1993
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat, Likad, Chasing the Phantom, 2022
Samuel Beckett, Not I, performed by Billie Whitelaw, 1973
Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Aurora, Zero Time, 1971
Arca (Laurie Anderson Remix), Big Science, 2022
Joan La Barbara / Melody Sumner Carnahan, de Profundis: Out of the Depths, a Sign, The Time Is Now. 1997
Nina Guo, songs from blauch räusch [UT004], 2021
Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Talking Just to Hear Yourself, 2020
Edgard Varèse, Tuning Up, 1998
Andy Bey, You Should’ve Seen the Way, Experience & Judgment, 1973