{"id":418,"date":"2009-09-15T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=418"},"modified":"2009-09-15T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:36:22","slug":"text-is-a-stimulant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/text-is-a-stimulant\/","title":{"rendered":"Text is a Stimulant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-419 alignleft\" title=\"Picture 11\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/Picture-11.png\" alt=\"Picture 11\" width=\"320\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/Picture-11.png 422w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/Picture-11-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In its most basic state, I see text as something designed to induce a state of mind both when text is created and when it is consumed. Marks are applied to a surface and visually consumed with the intent of inducing an awareness of something else apart from the awareness of the mark itself.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an amazing head trip.<\/p>\n<p>Text stimulates us to see our minds reflected back into space and thus, compared to early primal humans, gives us this out of body experience of who we are.\u00a0 To early humans, consuming text would be like taking peyote buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Image uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arenamontanus\/\">Arenamontanus<\/a> on 11 Dec 08, 2.00PM PDT on Flickr.\u00a0 Modified by Drew Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its most basic state, I see text as something designed to induce a state of mind both when text is created and when it is consumed. Marks are applied to a surface and visually consumed with the intent of inducing an awareness of something else apart from the awareness of the mark itself.\u00a0 That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}