The Response Ability

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What's your responsibility? Welcome To The Response Ability Podcast. I am your host, Labreia and what counts is your ability and your response… when, say, in adversity, in love, when up in arms— all regard your ability. Regard it and stay tuned.. you are on your station, and the world is your playground. - a forum for narrations, storytelling, writers, and curious editors | words of the response able l the horizon | what's your responsibility? | response ability was founded in 2022. We're on Instagram as @BecomeResponsible All book excerpts, images, or content used in this review are for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes under the Fair Use Doctrine (Section 107 of the US Copyright Act). All rights belong to the respective authors and publishers. These reviews are a transformative work used for literary commentary and does not replace the original text.

  1. 1 Jun

    Lo Mi Sto In Villa from Niccolo Machiavelli

    Welcome To Response(able). I am your host, Labreia. What counts is your response(ability) when, say, in adversity, in love, when up in arms— all regard your ability. Stay tuned. You are on your station and the world is your playground. "I am staying at my villa" writes Niccolò Machiavelli from his country estate in exile in December of 1513 to his friend Francesco Vettori. Editor Andre Aciman takes this position of exile and exposes the uncertainty of authorial process. He even examines the thinning of air when it begins to rise above the shoulders and conduct a continuous present, or current for the reader and the audience. All book excerpts, images, or content used in this review are for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes under the Fair Use Doctrine (Section 107 of the US Copyright Act). All rights belong to the respective authors and publishers. These reviews are a transformative work used for literary commentary and does not replace the original text. Music accredited to Kelvin Frierson for Chaos For Peace, True King Prod., True King Music Group LLC.

    22 min

  2. 18 May

    A Feature on the World Wildlife Fund from Dr. Richard Harkess

    Welcome To Response(able). I am your host, Labreia. What counts is your ability and your response… when, say, in adversity, in love, when up in arms— all regard your ability. Regard it and stay tuned.. you are on your station, and the world is your playground. Today we’ll be reading a portion of an article from the World Wildlife Fund, a most responsible, a most response able nonprofit organization and environmental agency with, and I've said this before but it fits again here, agency with reverent appeal to worldly condition. All book excerpts, images, or content used in this review are for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes under the Fair Use Doctrine (Section 107 of the US Copyright Act). All rights belong to the respective authors and publishers. These reviews are a transformative work used for literary commentary and does not replace the original text. Music Credits to to Kelvin Frierson for Chaos For Peace, True King Prod., True King Music Group LLC.

    34 min

  3. 28 Apr

    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    Welcome To Response(able). I am your host, Labreia. What counts is your ability and your response… when, say, in adversity, in love, when up in arms— all regard your ability. Regard it and stay tuned.. you are on your station, and the world is your playground. Today we’ll be reading Ralph Ellison, a most responsible, a most response able author and writer with reverent appeal to our condition. All book excerpts, images, or content used in this review are for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes under the Fair Use Doctrine (Section 107 of the US Copyright Act). All rights belong to the respective authors and publishers. These reviews are a transformative work used for literary commentary and does not replace the original text.

    40 min

  4. 14 Mar

    "30 yrs. and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the (ERP)" by Kutas and Federmeier + "Speech to the Young" by Gwendolyn Brooks Part II

    This week we discuss the same language and sameness of physiological features in Gwendolyn Brooks's speech, against Marta Kutas, and Kara Federmeier's paper. "No one has ever seen a portrait with its back against the wall." -Labreia Gwendolyn Brooks is the 1950 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry, and the first Black writer to do so. She served as Illinois Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate). Other major honors include the National Medal of Arts, the Frost Medal, a National Book Foundation Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame, alongside many honorary degrees and fellowships. Let's respond to the insouciance and staccato, to the language, the memory, context effects, timing and priming, and nonlinguistic by two very distinguished cognitive neuroscientists known for their collaborative work on the N400 brain potential component, semantic memory, and language processing. Marta has been awarded since 1985 until 2023, and beginning with the latest in 2023: Revelle Medal Award, University of California, San Diego; Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Distinguished Career Contributions Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR); Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, American Psychological Association (APA); Honorary Degree of Science, Oberlin College. Kara Federmeier has received numerous accolades for her work, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2023. She served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research from 2017 to 2019. Her recognition also includes the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial Scholar and University Scholar titles from the University of Illinois. https://youtu.be/UVZ6KTLN7O8?si=rTkWsaKrtq1zobtF Bego, E. (2019, October 15). Ghost museum. AGNI Online. https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/ghost-museum/ Brooks, G. (1991). Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III) [Poem]. In Blacks. Third World Press. Kutas, M., & Federmeier, K. D. (2011). *Thirty years and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP).* *Annual Review of Psychology, 62*, 621–647. [https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.131123](https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.131123) The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer's Guide by Michael Kardos is a practical guide focusing on techniques like scene-writing, imagery, and revision, primarily aimed at college-level creative writing students. Second Ed. ISBN-13: 978-1319030421 The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori: LCCN: 95018404 ISBN-13: 978-0805041569 ISBN-10: 0805041567 Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eckhart-tolle-essential-teachings/id1458654443 Vlatko Vedral on Portals to a New Reality: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vlatko-vedral-on-portals-to-a-new-reality/id411527781?i=1000746040580 Musical Credits to Kelvin Frierson for Chaos For Peace, True King Prod., True King Music Group LLC.

    55 min

  5. 26 Jan

    "30 yrs. and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the (ERP)" by Kutas and Federmeier + "Speech to the Young" by Gwendolyn Brooks

    This week we discuss the gifts of Gwendolyn Brooks, Marta Kutas, and Kara Federmeier. Gwendolyn Brooks is the 1950 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry, and the first Black writer to do so. She served as Illinois Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate). Other major honors include the National Medal of Arts, the Frost Medal, a National Book Foundation Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame, alongside many honorary degrees and fellowships. We are able to respond to insouciance and staccato. We are able to respond with legibility: the kind that lets... We are able to respond to the language, the memory, context effects, timing and priming, and nonlinguistic by two very distinguished cognitive neuroscientists known for their collaborative work on the N400 brain potential component, semantic memory, and language processing. Marta has been awarded since 1985 until 2023, and beginning with the latest in 2023: Revelle Medal Award, University of California, San Diego; Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Distinguished Career Contributions Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society; Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR); Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, American Psychological Association (APA); Honorary Degree of Science, Oberlin College. Kara Federmeier has received numerous accolades for her work, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2023. She served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research from 2017 to 2019. Her recognition also includes the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial Scholar and University Scholar titles from the University of Illinois. https://youtu.be/UVZ6KTLN7O8?si=rTkWsaKrtq1zobtF Bego, E. (2019, October 15). Ghost museum. AGNI Online. https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/ghost-museum/ Brooks, G. (1991). Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III) [Poem]. In Blacks. Third World Press. Kutas, M., & Federmeier, K. D. (2011). *Thirty years and counting: Finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP).* *Annual Review of Psychology, 62*, 621–647. [https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.131123](https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.131123) Musical Credits to Kelvin Frierson for Chaos For Peace, True King Prod., True King Music Group LLC.

    25 min

  6. 22 Jan

    "Cinderella" by C. Perrault, G. Basile, Brothers Grimm, Rodgers & Hammerstein + Judy Murphy’s "Assertiveness: How to Stand Up for Yourself"

    This week we discuss the gifts one of the greatest fairytales, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Giambattista Basile, Brothers Grimm, Rodgers & Hammerstein. We are able to respond to the Loss, the Comfort, to not Pivot, to Choose, to Decide, to Knowing ourselves, to say No, and to Know Commitment for Endurance. We also make a great mention to Judy Murphy’s, Assertiveness: How to Stand Up for Yourself and Still Win the Respect of Others. Musical Credits to Kelvin Frierson for Chaos For Peace, True King Prod., True King Music Group LLC.

    49 min

  7. 4 Jan

    "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

    Welcome To Response(able). I am your host, Labreia. Join us and our incredible guest works of art as we talk about the playground you’ll be adding to your day. The focus this week is on building that world, and making it real if not methodically, then recitative in fourteen verbs with a very special novel, and a children's classic. Glossary: Consolate, contrive, pervade, chagrin, ameliorate, surfeit, bemused, seed, or met his Beatrice, foist, chafe, fructify, stultify, eluded, gathers, buries, covers, uncovers, recovers, perches, cracking, sniffing, smells, beat rhythmically, play, court, mate, rears, and forages. Musical Credits to Intimidated by Kaytranada and H.E.R.

    22 min
  8. Logophiles Comp. Corcoran's Semantic Arithmetic with Dr. Pratte and Greene's Perceptual Confidence, Existence, Representations, and Precision Part III

    31/12/2025

    Logophiles Comp. Corcoran's Semantic Arithmetic with Dr. Pratte and Greene's Perceptual Confidence, Existence, Representations, and Precision Part III

    This week we chose Semantic Arithmetic: A Preface by John Corcoran and Perceptual confidence has near perfect access to the existence of discrete representations, but only weak access to precision by Green and Pratte. For our logophiles we are going to take up these two publications, and have some discourse, be informed, and be encouraged. This the final part of the series. Musical Credits to the Sound of Silence by Nina Simone circa. 1964, 1968 at a Montreux Jazz Festival; Paul Simon and Garfunkel. Sources: Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 8th Ed., Nelson and Cox Chapter 1.4 Genetic Foundations Communication and Language in Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior 2nd Ed. by Sara J. Shettleworth Chapter 14.1.2 and 14.12.3 and 14.2.3 and 14.3.1 Corcoran, John (1995). Semantic Arithmetic: A Preface. Agora 14 (1):149-156. Green ML, Pratte MS. Perceptual confidence has near perfect access to the existence of discrete representations, but only weak access to precision. Cognition. 2026 Feb;267:106347. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106347. Epub 2025 Oct 24. PMID: 41138620. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/psychology/introspection https://racket-lang.org/ The Best American Essays 2020, Andre Aciman, Ghost Musuem by Elvis Bego.

    15 min
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What's your responsibility? Welcome To The Response Ability Podcast. I am your host, Labreia and what counts is your ability and your response… when, say, in adversity, in love, when up in arms— all regard your ability. Regard it and stay tuned.. you are on your station, and the world is your playground. - a forum for narrations, storytelling, writers, and curious editors | words of the response able l the horizon | what's your responsibility? | response ability was founded in 2022. We're on Instagram as @BecomeResponsible All book excerpts, images, or content used in this review are for commentary, criticism, and educational purposes under the Fair Use Doctrine (Section 107 of the US Copyright Act). All rights belong to the respective authors and publishers. These reviews are a transformative work used for literary commentary and does not replace the original text.

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  • Creator
    Labreia
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022-2026 Responsible. All rights reserved.
  • Provider
    Ancient Playgrounds Co.