Worlding the Brain

Stephan Besser (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2009), is assistant professor in literary studies and modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Pathographie der Tropen: Literatur, Medizin und Kolonialismus um 1900 (2013).Flora Lysen (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2020), is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Maastricht University. She is the author of Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020(2022).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Together again, ApartStephan Besser and Flora LysenPart 1: Worlded Brains1 ‘Worlding’ the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoriaMichael Burke2 The Mediated BrainA Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic FormJoerg Fingerhut3 Getting a Kick out of FilmAesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing AgentsMark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded BrainsAn Interdisciplinary Perspective on “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome”Machiel Keestra5 BeworlderedAn Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic BeingTrijsje Franssen6 Pedagogy and NeurodiversityExperimenting in the Classroom with Autistic PerceptionHalbe KuipersPart 2: Narrative Entanglements7 Personification as ÉlanificationAgency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived RelationsMarco Bernini8 Cognitive FormalismOr, How Presence Machines are BuiltKarin Kukkonen9 “Watchman, What of the Night?”Reading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes’s NightwoodShannon McBriar10 The Unfolding NowNarrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic PerspectivePia Tikka and Mauri KaipainenPart 3: Figuring the Brain11 Set and Setting of the Brain on HallucinogenPsychedelic Revival in the Acid WesternPatricia Pisters12 Modeling the ModelReflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain ProjectNoah Hutton13 A Monk in the OfficeMindfulness and the Valuation of Popular NeuroscienceTies van der Werff14 Figuring ThoughtBetween Experience and AbstractionKsenia FedorovaPART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A TrilogueAntye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?Disruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and HumanitiesMichael Wheeler17 Measuring Acoustic Social WorldsReflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human InteractionShannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)yA Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and SciencesSuzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca19 Thanks for SharingLocal Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive ProcessingStephan BesserIndex