Thinking in the World: A Reader

369 Pages·2020·6.881 MB·English

by  Jill Bennett , Mary zournazi

Thinking in the
World
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Thinking in the World combines the work of key thinkers to pioneer a new
approach to the study of thought. Responding to a pressing need in both
academic and wider public contexts to account for thinking as it is experienced
in everyday settings, the Reader and Book Series explore our thinking
relationship to everything from illness to built environments, to ecologies, to
other forms of life and technology.
Bringing together phenomenology with recent trends in cognitive science
and the arts, this unique, field-defining collection illuminates thinking
as a practical activity. It interweaves a series of distinctive essays and
commentaries into a compelling whole, constituting a new framework and
set of resources for analysing thinking in real-world situations. Rather than
simply thinking about the world, the authors examine the ways in which we
think in and with the world in its physical, material and social dimensions.
A philosophy of thinking in action, it provides a multifaceted but sustained
account of neurobiological experience and its inexorable connection to the
world.
Thinking in the
World
A Reader
EDITED BY
JILL BENNETT AND MARY
ZOURNAZI
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Thinking in the world Jill Bennett and Mary Zournazi 1
PART ONE Thinking worlds
13
1 Revolutions in thinking Michel Serres (MS) and
Mary Zournazi (MZ) 15
2 The thinking that is in the world Alphonso Lingis 29
PART TWO Senses of place
37
3 A phenomenology of thinking in place Edward S. Casey (ESC)
and Jeff Malpas (JM) 39
4 Attunement as architectural meaning Alberto Pérez-Gómez 64
PART THREE Extended minds and bodies
77
5 Embodying thought in skilful action John Sutton, Doris
McIlwain, Wayne Christensen and Andrew Geeves 79
6 What does the stick do for the blind? Lambros Malafouris 115
PART FOUR Technologies
129
7 The distributed-centred subject Hélène Mialet 131
8 Dancing with the non-human Petra Gemeinboeck 150
CONTENTS
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PART FIVE Creativity
171
9 Thinking in film Mieke Bal 173
10 Thinking through the cello Tim Ingold 202
11 Aesthetic intelligence Jill Bennett (JB) and
Lynn Froggett (LF) 223
PART SIX Spectrums of experience
239
12 Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with autist Jamie
Burke, or remembering the sensorimotor future
Ralph James Savarese 241
13 The philosophical role of illness Havi Carel 264
PART SEVEN Economies, ecologies, politics
289
14 Thinking love and politics in the world Michael Hardt (MH)
and Mary Zournazi (MZ) 291
15 Thinking with interdependence: From economy/
environment to ecological livelihoods Ethan Miller and
J. K. Gibson-Graham 313
Index 341
Illustrations
2.1 Copyright: Alphonso Lingis 29
9.1 Descartes talks to his friend Chanut about body and soul.
Photo: Margreet Vermeulen. Copyright: Mieke Bal 180
9.2 Descartes meeting Spinoza. Photo: Margreet Vermeulen 181
9.3 Descartes’ anger. Photo: Margreet Vermeulen 185
9.4 Kristina’s insecurity. Photo: Przemo Wojciechowski 186
9.5 Kristina with sculpture of Descartes. Photo: Przemo
Wojciechowski 188
9.6 Awkward conversation. Photo: Przemo Wojciechowski 189
9.7 Kristina’s vision. Photo: Przemo Wojciechowski 191
9.8 Elisabeth visits Kristina. Photo: Thijs Vissia 192
15.1 The economy as an iceberg. Original image by Ken Byrne,
modified text by Ethan Miller 319
15.2 Three dimensions of livelihood: receiving, making, providing.
Image by Ethan Miller 323
15.3 Questions of livelihood. Image by Ethan Miller 325