This article argues that William James description of the experience of our own awareness, our sense of Self - as a stream of consciousness (in James:The Principles of Psychology 1890) played an important role in the development of Modernism, in literature, and in the importance of collage, photomontage and serial montage in the period 1890-1930. And that the evocation of stream of consciousness still underpins much of our 'streaming media' culture of the 21st century.
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