Unaccountable incidents can reveal blind gaps in normal perception

Evidence

I’m very interested in those things, always have been. Through those odd things, we glimpse something that’s outside the way we usually look at the world, and realise there might be another way of looking at it, an alternate perception to the one we have, and I think that’s a very valuable possibility to keep hold of. The awareness that maybe there are gaps in our perception that we aren’t able to fill yet. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 417

Categorization

• CANDY: Foxx frames coincidences/odd events as evidence of ‘gaps in our perception’ — a compact, tweetable redefinition of why unexplained things matter.
• XREF: connects to: The English landscape encodes submerged histories of class struggle — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 541; Data-mining reveals a digital unconscious akin to Benjamin’s optical unconscious — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 148; An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 369 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard #exemplifies (0.90) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 369
• Breakdowns in bodily experience reveal the mechanisms of normal perception #corroborates (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 736