Worlding the Brain
Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities
Published on 5. October 2023
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-90-04-68128-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
649 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-68128-6 (9789004681286)
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Persons
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).
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Together again, Apart
?Stephan Besser and Flora Lysen
Part 1: Worlded Brains
1 'Worlding' the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria
?Michael Burke
2 The Mediated Brain
?A Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic Form
?Joerg Fingerhut
3 Getting a Kick out of Film
?Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents
?Mark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein
4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains
?An Interdisciplinary Perspective on "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome"
?Machiel Keestra
5 Beworldered
?An Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic Being
?Trijsje Franssen
6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity
?Experimenting in the Classroom with Autistic Perception
?Halbe Kuipers
Part 2: Narrative Entanglements
7 Personification as Elanification
?Agency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations
?Marco Bernini
8 Cognitive Formalism
?Or, How Presence Machines are Built
?Karin Kukkonen
9 "Watchman, What of the Night?"
?Reading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
?Shannon McBriar
10 The Unfolding Now
?Narrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective
?Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
Part 3: Figuring the Brain
11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen
?Psychedelic Revival in the Acid Western
?Patricia Pisters
12 Modeling the Model
?Reflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project
?Noah Hutton
13 A Monk in the Office
?Mindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience
?Ties van der Werff
14 Figuring Thought
?Between Experience and Abstraction
?Ksenia Fedorova
PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue
?Antye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
?Disruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
?Michael Wheeler
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
?Reflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction
?Shannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
?A Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
?Suzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca
19 Thanks for Sharing
?Local Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing
?Stephan Besser
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Together again, Apart
?Stephan Besser and Flora Lysen
Part 1: Worlded Brains
1 'Worlding' the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria
?Michael Burke
2 The Mediated Brain
?A Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic Form
?Joerg Fingerhut
3 Getting a Kick out of Film
?Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents
?Mark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein
4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains
?An Interdisciplinary Perspective on "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome"
?Machiel Keestra
5 Beworldered
?An Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic Being
?Trijsje Franssen
6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity
?Experimenting in the Classroom with Autistic Perception
?Halbe Kuipers
Part 2: Narrative Entanglements
7 Personification as Elanification
?Agency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations
?Marco Bernini
8 Cognitive Formalism
?Or, How Presence Machines are Built
?Karin Kukkonen
9 "Watchman, What of the Night?"
?Reading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
?Shannon McBriar
10 The Unfolding Now
?Narrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective
?Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
Part 3: Figuring the Brain
11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen
?Psychedelic Revival in the Acid Western
?Patricia Pisters
12 Modeling the Model
?Reflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project
?Noah Hutton
13 A Monk in the Office
?Mindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience
?Ties van der Werff
14 Figuring Thought
?Between Experience and Abstraction
?Ksenia Fedorova
PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds
15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue
?Antye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack
16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?
?Disruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities
?Michael Wheeler
17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds
?Reflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction
?Shannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania
18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y
?A Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences
?Suzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca
19 Thanks for Sharing
?Local Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing
?Stephan Besser
Index