free-associative

"Their sometimes repetitive, free-associative structure serves only to amplify their message."

Thomas DeBaggio, Va. gardener who wrote poignantly about Alzheimer's, dies at 69 2011

The album includes two original songs by Mr. Bridges, including "Tumbling Vine," a free-associative song sketch that could have come from the Dude, the bemused stoner Mr. Bridges played in "The Big Lebowski."

The Short List 2011

You can see the hyper-priming, free-associative effect at play when Doyle adds that "cannabis induces a parataxis wherein sentences resonate together and summon coherence in the bardos between one statement and other, rather than through explicit semantics."

Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

A surprise Palme d'Or winner at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's backwoods reverie projects an infectious, free-associative animism that gently pulls you into its flow.

Roads Less Taken, Spirits Awakened Steve Dollar 2011

Essentially, marijuana can extend the range of our free-associative capacities.

Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

While not surprising, it does offer a scientific validation for what so many artists, philosophers and scientists have been saying for ages: that marijuana is a cognitive catalyst that can trigger heightened free-associative creativity, increased pattern recognition, and insight.

Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

Tom Ewing Canibus Master Thesis Until mail-order copies of Lyrical Law, Canibus's third LP in a year, start arriving later this month, gems like this 2002 free-associative tour de force – in which he claims to have studied geometry in Atlantis's library and turned down an offer to help Buckminster Fuller rebuild Rome – will more than suffice.

The F&M playlist 2011

The well-rounded concision of his musings sets him apart from the epic strivings of modernists such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as well as from the free-associative collages of the New York School.

A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism, an art movement characterized by the free-associative gestures in paint sometimes referred to as “action painting.”

Five People Born on January 28 | myFiveBest 2010

Japan's obsession with insects is used to put our own species under a magnifying glass in this free-associative documentary, which flits from the niche world of bug-hunters and insect collectors to cultural staples like haiku and zen.

This week's new films 2011