Ljerka Kovačić Tot

Pre-Reflective Visual Attraction to the Actor's Embodied Presence: Screen Presence Beyond Narrative Centrality

AbstractThis paper investigates a specific spectatorial phenomenon: inexplicably persistentvisual attention to the actor's embodied presence beyond what narrative centrality canexplain. Taking Harvey Specter as embodied by Gabriel Macht in Suits (2011-2019) asnarrative model, the...

From Falsification to Reconstruction: What Happens When Reflection Enters the Clinic

Husserl in Ideas I §79 worries that reflection falsifies unreflective experience by converting it into something essentially different. Dewey in How We Think (1910) and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938) counters that reflection is valuable precisely because it reconstructs inde...

From Falsification to Reconstruction: What Happens When Reflection Enters the Clinic

Husserl in Ideas I §79 worries that reflection falsifies unreflective experience by converting it into something essentially different. Dewey in How We Think (1910) and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938) counters that reflection is valuable precisely because it reconstructs inde...