Intimate Connections w/ Bitsy Knox: The Intervening Mind (Something Like #46)

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.

Bitsy Knox is an artist, poet, and radio host based in Berlin, Germany. Her Show Something Like plumbs themes of adjacency, seeking out nascent states through experimental music and poetry.