Worlding the Brain : Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities (Experimental Practices)

Besser, Stephan (EDT)/ Lysen, Flora (EDT)

Brill（2023/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 322 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004681286
• DDC分類 001.3

Full 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.

Contents

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 Élanification

 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