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Thinking in the World Series Page 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 BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2020 Copyright © Jill Bennett, Mary Zournazi, and contributors 2020 Jill Bennett and Mary Zournazi have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xvii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design by Peter Somogyi All rights reserved. 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ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-6921-3 PB: 978-1-3500-6922-0 ePDF: 978-1-3500-6920-6 eBook: 978-1-3500-6924-4 Series: Thinking in the World Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. We dedicate this book to Michel Serres – a truly original thinker who continues to inspire us and our thinking in the world. vi 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 viii CONTENTS 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