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Experience : culture, cognition, and the common sense

2016
Book
Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive cover by Olafur Eliasson reveals words, colors, and a drawing when touched by human hands. Endpapers designed by Carsten Ho˜ller are printed in ink containing carefully calibrated quantities of the synthesized human pheromones estratetraenol and androstadienone, evoking the suggestibility of human desire. The margins and edges of the book are designed by Tauba Auerbach in complementary colours that create a dynamically shifting effect when the book is shifted or closed. When the book is opened, bookmarks cascade from the centre, emerging from spider web prints by Tomas Saraceno. Experience produces experience while bringing the concept itself into relief as an object of contemplation. The sensory experience of the book as a physical object resonates with the intellectual experience of the book as a container of ideas.
Main title:
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Mit Press, [2016]©2016
Collation:
351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
I. Opening -- Modeling / Caroline A. Jones -- Mediating / Rebecca Uchill -- Analogies / David Mather -- II. Seeing -- Amphibian / Tauba Auerbach -- Processing / Bevil R. Conway -- Mathematizing / Alma Steingart -- Moralizing / Michael Rossi -- III. Sounding -- Closed book / Alvin Lucier -- I am sitting in a room / Alvin Lucier -- Music for solo performer / Alvin Lucier -- Resonance / Brian Kane -- Feeling / Adam Frank -- Modulation / Mara Mills -- Transducing / Stefan Helmreich -- IV. Sensing -- Actions / Tomas Saraceno -- Social strings / Tomas Saraceno -- Intuiting / Josh Tenenbaum -- Tracking / Natasha Schull -- Self of sense / Leah Kelly -- Lightning / Douglas Kahn -- Understanding / Alva Noe -- V. Experiencing -- On experience / Arno Raffeiner -- Bodily framing / Vittorio Gallese -- "Consciousness" / William James -- Visual and tactual / Edmund Husserl -- Having an experience / John Dewey -- Experience process: space poems / Renee Green -- Experience book / Michel Foucault / Duccio Trombadori -- Historicizing experience / Joan W. Scott -- Aisthesis / Jacques Ranciere -- Sensitizing / Bruno Latour -- Waiting for Gaia / Bruno Latour.
ISBN:
9780262035149 (hardback)
Dewey class:
128.4
Language:
English
BRN:
445730
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
City Library-SocietySOCIETY 128.4 EXPEOn loan - Due: 26 Jun 2026
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