Worlding the Brain

Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68128-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Reihe: Experimental Practices

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Besser, Stephan

Lysen, Flora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).