Research Catalog

Title

Experience : culture, cognition, and the common sense / Jones Mather Uchill, eds.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Caroline A.
• Mather, David
• Uchill, Rebecca, 1978-
• Center for Art, Science & Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), supporting body.

Description

351 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

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 Holler 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 colors that create a dynamically shifting effect when the book is shifted or closed. When the book is opened, bookmarks cascade from the center, 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. Experience convenes a conversation with artists, musicians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and neuroscientists, each of whom explores aspects of sensorial and cultural realms of experience. The texts include new essays written for this volume and classic texts by such figures as William James and Michel Foucault.

Subjects

• Experience
• Illustrated works

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.

Note

• "This book was supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology"--Page 2.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 / Alvin Lucier, Brian Kane ; Feeling / Adam Frank ; Modulating / Mara Mills ; Transducing / Stefan Helmreich -- IV. Sensing. Actions / Tomás Saraceno ; Social strings / Tomás Saraceno ; Intuiting / Josh Tenenbaum ; Tracking / Natasha Schüll ; Sense of self / Leah Kelly ; Lightning / Douglas Kahn ; Understanding / Alva Noë -- V. Experiencing. On experience / Tino Sehgal, Arno Raffeiner ; Bodily framing / Vittorio Gallese ; "Consciousness" / William James ; Visual and tactual / Edmund Husserl ; Having an experience / John Dewey ; Experience process: space poems / Renée Green ; Experience book / Michel Foucault, Duccio Trombadori ; Historicizing experience / Joan W. Scott ; Aisthesis / Jacques Rancière ; Sensitizing / Bruno Latour ; Waiting for Gaïa / Bruno Latour.

Call Number

JFF 16-1572

ISBN

• 9780262035149
• 0262035146

LCCN

2016930590

OCLC

953566083

Title

Experience : culture, cognition, and the common sense / Jones Mather Uchill, eds.

Distributor

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jones, Caroline A., editor, author.

Mather, David, editor, author.

Uchill, Rebecca, 1978- editor, author.

Center for Art, Science & Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), supporting body.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1572