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How things shape the mind : a theory of material engagement
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ISBN: 9780262019194 9780262528924 0262019191 9780262315661 0262315661 0262528924 1299746136 026231567X 0262315653 9781461935674 1461935679 9780262315654 9781299746138 9780262315678 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and material culture, posing major challenges for philosophy, cognitive science, archaeology, and anthropology. In How Things Shape the Mind, Lambros Malafouris proposes a cross-disciplinary analytical framework for investigating the ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body. Using a variety of examples and case studies, he considers how those ways might have changed from earliest prehistory to the present. Malafouris's Material Engagement Theory definitively adds materiality--the world of things, artifacts, and material signs--into the cognitive equation. His account not only questions conventional intuitions about the boundaries and location of the human mind but also suggests that we rethink classical archaeological assumptions about human cognitive evolution.


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Material agency : Towards a non-anthropocentric approach
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ISBN: 9780387747101 9780387747118 0387747109 1441945121 9786611954024 1281954020 0387747117 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer,

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Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute, and a means of incorporating individual intentionality into theoretical discourse. In other domains, however, notions of non-human and ‘material’ agency have been finding currency, and it is our aim to introduce some of these themes into archaeology and develop a non-anthropocentric approach to agency. It is anticipated that such a perspective will not only help us achieve more convincing interpretations of the past, giving a more active role to material culture, but also throw new light on the changing role of artifacts in the present and the future. This book is a groundbreaking attempt to address questions of non-human and material agency from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, and economics. The editors and authors demonstrate that a distributed, relational approach to agency, incorporating both humans and artifacts, has important ramifications for how we understand material culture.


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Material agency: towards a non-anthropocentric approach
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ISBN: 9781441945129 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Springer

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The sapient mind : archaeology meets neuroscience
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ISBN: 9780199561995 0199561990 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The cognitive life of things : recasting the boundaries of the mind
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ISBN: 9781902937519 1902937511 Year: 2010 Volume: *22 Publisher: Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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The cognitive life of things: archaeology, material engagement and the extended mind / Lambros Malafouris & Colin Renfrew -- Knapping intentions and the marks of the mental / Lambros Malafouris -- Material surrogacy and the supernatural: reflections on the role of artefacts in 'off-line' cognition / Andy Clark -- Minds, things and materiality / Michael Wheeler -- The death of the mind / Chris Gosden -- Metaphor and materiality in earliest prehistory / Fiona Coward & Clive Gamble -- Technological conceptualization: cognition on the shoulders of history / Niels Johannsen -- The exographic revoution: neuropsychological sequelae / Merlin Donald -- Communities of things and objects: a spatial perspective / Carl Knappett -- Imagining the cognitive life of things / Edwin Hutchins -- Things and their embodied environments / Charles Goodwin -- Explaining artefact evolution / David Kirsh.


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Biothing : [Alisa Andrasek] : [exposition, FRAC Centre, 10 septembre - 22 novembre 2009]
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ISBN: 9782910385606 2910385604 Year: 2009 Publisher: Orléans : HYX,

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Présentation des projets conçus par six équipes de jeunes architectes : Biothing, DORA (Design office for research and architecture), EZCT architecture et design research, Gramazio et Kolher, IJP-George L. Legendre et Xefirotarch, dans le cadre du concours lancé par la marchande d'art Nathalie Seroussi pour construire un pavillon d'habitation dans sa propriété de Meudon afin de compléter un ensemble réalisé par le précédent propriétaire André Bloc (1885-1966)

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