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Worlding the Brain
Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities
Series: - Experimental Practices, Volume: 3
Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, this book introduces the concept of worlding as a new way to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Case studies ranging from film, literature, music, and dance to pedagogy, historical trauma, and present-day discourses of mindfulness investigate how brains are worlded in an active interplay of biological, cognitive, and socio-discursive factors. Combining scholarly work with personal accounts of neurodiversity and essays by artists reflecting on their practical engagement with cognition, Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the study of brains and cognition and explores novel forms interdisciplinarity.
Stephan Besser (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2009), is assistant professor in literary studies and modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Pathographie der Tropen: Literatur, Medizin und Kolonialismus um 1900 (2013).
Flora Lysen (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2020), is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Maastricht University. She is the author of Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020(2022).
Flora Lysen (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2020), is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Maastricht University. She is the author of Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020(2022).
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Together again, Apart
âStephan Besser and Flora Lysen
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Together again, Apart
âStephan Besser and Flora Lysen
Part 1: Worlded Brains
1 âWorldingâ the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria
âMichael Burke
2 The Mediated Brain
âA Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic Form
âJoerg Fingerhut
3 Getting a Kick out of Film
âAesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents
âMark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein
4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains
âAn Interdisciplinary Perspective on âPost-Traumatic Slave Syndromeâ
âMachiel Keestra
5 Beworldered
âAn Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic Being
âTrijsje Franssen
6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity
âExperimenting in the Classroom with Autistic Perception
âHalbe Kuipers
Part 2: Narrative Entanglements
7 Personification as Ãlanification
âAgency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations
âMarco Bernini
8 Cognitive Formalism
âOr, How Presence Machines are Built
âKarin Kukkonen
9 âWatchman, What of the Night?â
âReading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnesâs Nightwood
âShannon McBriar
10 The Unfolding Now
âNarrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective
âPia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
Part 3: Figuring the Brain
11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen
âPsychedelic Revival in the Acid Western
âPatricia Pisters
12 Modeling the Model
âReflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project
âNoah Hutton
13 A Monk in the Office
âMindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience
âTies van der Werff
14 Figuring Thought
âBetween Experience and Abstraction
âKsenia Fedorova
PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue
âAntye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
âDisruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
âMichael Wheeler
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
âReflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction
âShannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
âA Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
âSuzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca
19 Thanks for Sharing
âLocal Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing
âStephan Besser
Index
7 Personification as Ãlanification
âAgency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations
âMarco Bernini
8 Cognitive Formalism
âOr, How Presence Machines are Built
âKarin Kukkonen
9 âWatchman, What of the Night?â
âReading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnesâs Nightwood
âShannon McBriar
10 The Unfolding Now
âNarrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective
âPia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
Part 3: Figuring the Brain
11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen
âPsychedelic Revival in the Acid Western
âPatricia Pisters
12 Modeling the Model
âReflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project
âNoah Hutton
13 A Monk in the Office
âMindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience
âTies van der Werff
14 Figuring Thought
âBetween Experience and Abstraction
âKsenia Fedorova
PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue
âAntye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
âDisruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
âMichael Wheeler
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
âReflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction
âShannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
âA Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
âSuzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca
19 Thanks for Sharing
âLocal Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing
âStephan Besser
Index
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue
âAntye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
âDisruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
âMichael Wheeler
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
âReflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction
âShannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
âA Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
âSuzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca
19 Thanks for Sharing
âLocal Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing
âStephan Besser
Index
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