#ted cohen

[randyseaver]

Ted Cohen strikes again

TIME TO READ | 3 minutes (673 words) In his latest missive — and now just the latest chapter in his rather creepy obsession with me — Ted Cohen once again uses the Maine Wire to shit on various journalists across the state without having the balls to look ’em in the eye. Maybe it’s because he’s short, wears thick glasses and has a reputation for really bad breath. I don’t know. But something…

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[randyseaver]

Fatal Attraction or Dog Day Afternoon?

If you think about it, it’s a really sad story. Pathetic, even. Ted Cohen – once a highly respected veteran reporter for Maine’s largest newspaper – is today reduced to freelance writing for a handful of irrelevant websites. Cohen has become that character. You know? That overweight, balding 58-year-old guy, sitting alone at the bar in an Applebee’s, nursing a Budweiser during happy-hour so…

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[m-tea]

When we laugh together, that is a very special occasion. It is already noteworthy that we laugh at all, at anything, and that we laugh all alone. That we do it together is the satisfaction of a deep human longing, the realization of a desperate hope. It is the hope that we are enough like one another to sense one another, to be able to live together

Ted Cohen as quoted in Twitter: the intimacy machine by C. Thi Nguyen

[j2parman]

WHO DESIGNED THIS? SIGNE MAYFIELD ON THE EXHIBITION DESIGNER TED COHEN — ARCADE Magazine

Ted Cohen's elaborate credits at the end of Signe Mayfield's recent book, The Object in its Place: Ted Cohen & The Art of Exhibition Design, acknowledges Cohen’s understanding that even very small exhibitions are the work of many.

My review of a book on the exhibition designer Ted Cohen.

[jasmined]

Our laughter is our acceptance of the thing in its incomprehensibility. It is the acceptance of ...a world that is endlessly incomprehensible, always baffling, a world that is beyond us and yet our world.’

Ted Cohen, “Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters”

[sorenaspiring]

“...being human requires knowing what it is to be human, and that requires the intimate recognition of other human beings.  This is certainly not a new idea, and it has never been put more clearly than by a man of the theater:

I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

Ted Cohen quoting Arthur Miller in Thinking of Others

Stage set sketch for Death of a Salesman, unknown artist

[sorenaspiring]

Indeed there are forms of intelligence that seem to work against interpersonal understanding.  There is a kind of intelligence especially likely to be found in universities, in my experience, very ready to assign stupidity or some other disability to those who are different.   Both inside and outside the academy is to be found a kind of pseudo-intelligence in the form of one of those ideologies that includes, built-in, an explanation of those one does not understand.   This explanation, in fact, is either a pretense to understand or a refusal to admit that there is anything to be understood.  In possession of one of these "systems of thought," one says of one's opponent, "He is repressing," "He is trapped in his ideology," "His class consciousness blinds him," "He is an infidel," "He is possessed," "He is hysterical."  These "analyses" or "diagnoses" are, typically, nothing more than the speaker's oblique confession of his own ignorance about the person he presumes to be explaining.

Ted Cohen, Thinking of Others

Photo by Carl Purcell

[lordofbeads]

Study: Using metaphor helps us understand each other's minds

Metaphor makes you more empathetic, it seems: When subjects in a new study read metaphors, they got better at identifing the emotion in pictures of people’s eyes.

Lately, novelists have been smugly thrilled by several studies finding that when we read fiction, we become more empathetic — better able to develop a “theory of mind” of other people, to grok their emotions and perspective. It’s…

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