Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding

✍ Scribed by Floyd Merrell

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 375
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on analogical sensing, rather than digital reasoning, Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Change Accompanies Corporeal Sensing
1. Becoming Conscious Becoming
2. Bodymind Flows
3. The Peircean Decalogue
4. Up and Down the Semiosic Mainstream
5. From Signification to Understanding
6. Interim: From the Pen of Jorge Luis Borges
7. Doing It Tacitly
8. Bodymind Doing
9. When There Is Nothing on the Mind
10. Hasta la Vista Descartes
11. Language Fixation
12. Topology at the Core
13. On What Is New
14. Contextualizing the Pragmatic Maxim
15. Maximizing the Maxim
16. Distinctly Human Umwelf?
17. Space Dancing through Time
Postscript: Posthuman Understanding through Sensing Corporeally
Notes
References
Index

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