The Orienting Reflex Theory - The Problem of Perception

Post modernism emerged in literature because, well, it turns out to be hard enough to see a normal object like a chair. And so if you think that just looking at something like a chair is almost impossibly difficult and subject to interpretation, then imagine how difficult it is to perceive something like a novel. It's not even obvious why we think this is the same object when you move it. That's a desc on of something that's useful, something that's a tool, something that exists in relationship to your body. It's not an object. You caun read books when i was sixteen and then re read them, say, when i was forty, and the book was almost...