Thinking in the World

Jill Bennett is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her books include World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time (2003), Empathic Vision (2005), Practical Aesthetics (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and New Media Art and Living in the Anthropocene (2013).Mary Zournazi is an Australian writer and philosopher. She teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia and is the author of several books, including Hope - New Philosophies for Change (2003), Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception (I.B. Tauris, 2013). Her book Keywords to War (2008) was made into a radio documentary for ABC Radio National in Australia, and it was nominated for the Australian UN Media Peace Prize in 2008.

This volume is a remarkable collection of essays for its creative approach to the topic of thinking. The various essays effectively demonstrate the ways in which thinking does not merely take place in the brain but is embodied in our material and practical engagement with the world.

• List of Illustrations Introduction. Thinking in the worldJill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Mary Zournazi (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part 1. Thinking worlds Chapter 1. Revolutions in thinkingMichel Serres (Stanford University, USA) and Mary Zournazi Chapter 2. The thinking that is in the worldAlphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Part II. Senses of place Chapter 3. A phenomenology of thinking in placeEdward Casey (SUNY, Stony Book, USA) and Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia) Chapter 4. Attunement as architectural meaning Alberto Perez-Gomez (McGill University, Canada)Part III. Extended minds and bodies Chapter 5. Embodying thought in skilful actionJohn Sutton (Macquarie University, Australia), Doris McIlwain (Macquarie University, Australia), Wayne Christensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Andrew Geeves (Independent Scholar, Australia)Chapter 6. What does the stick do for the blind? Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford, UK)Part IV. Technologies Chapter 7. The distributed-centered subjectHélène Mialet (York University, Canada)Chapter 8. Dancing with the nonhuman Petra Gemeinboeck (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part V. Creativity Chapter 9. Thinking in film Mieke Bal (Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Chapter 10. Thinking through the celloTim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK)Chapter 11. Aesthetic intelligenceJill Bennett and Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire, UK)Part VI. Spectrums of experience Chapter 12. Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with autist Jamie Burke, or remembering the sensorimotor futureRalph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA)Chapter 13. The philosophical role of illnessHavi Carel (University of Bristol, UK)Part VII. Economies, ecologies, politics Chapter 14. Thinking love and politics in the worldMichael Hardt (Duke University, USA) and Mary Zournazi Chapter 15. Thinking with interdependence: from economy/environment to ecological livelihoodsEthan Miller (Bates College, Maine, USA) and J.K. Gibson-Graham (Western Sydney University, Australia)