Habitus in Habitat II

Which are the aspects of cognition not yet focused on as such by brain research? How can one deal with them?
This book sheds light on the other sides of cognition, on what they mean for forms and figurations of subjective, cultural and social understanding. In examining nuances, exceptions, changes, emotions and absence of emotions, automatized actions and meaningful relations, states of minds and states of bodies, the volume searches new approaches to these phenomena in discussing the relation between the habitus - the habits and behavioral attitudes involved in cognition - and its embeddedness in a habitat. By opening a dialogue between artistic knowledge and the sciences, Other Sides of Cognition investigates novel avenues and concepts within science and research.
At a Berlin-based conference: Other Sides of Cognition, scholars gathered from various disciplines to discuss these issues. This book broadens perspectives on the interdisciplinary field encompassing perception, action and epistemic formations. It offers a new view on the related field of habitus and cognition.

Auteur

Sabine Flach holds a PhD in Art History and works as Head of the Department WissensKünste (Art of Knowledge and Knowledge of Art) at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. Her current work focuses on knowledge of the arts, embodiment and image act, emotion and motion, other sides of cognition, aesthesis and mediality, mental images and «Einbildungskraft», image and body, body and gestures. She has also developed the project «Emotion and Motion» at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.
Jan Söffner holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Cologne University and works in comparative literature for the project «Emotion and Motion» at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. His current work focuses on embodiment, mimesis and metaphors as related to emotions in literature.

Contenu

Contents: Sabine Flach/Jan Söffner: Introduction - Harold Schweizer: Writing in the Shade. A Meditation - Sabine Flach: On Twilight - Felicity Callard/Daniel Margulies: The Subject «at Rest». Cognitive Neuroscience's Struggle with the Dark Side of Cognition - Nicolas de Oliveira/Nicola Oxley: We Were Never Being Boring. Between Concentration and Inattention - Holger Schulze: The Generativity of Boredom. Morton Feldman, Aphex Twin and Einstürzende Neubauten - Jan Slaby: The Other Side of Existence. Heidegger on Boredom - Julian Klein: The Other Side of the Frame. Artistic Experience as Felt Framing: Fundamental Principles of an Artistic Theory of Relativity - Alexander Thiele: Attention. How the Brain Enables Perception - Pierre Cassou-Noguès: Emil Post Against Turing Machines. Models of a Plural Mind - Gerhard Scharbert: Cognitio animi experimentalis. Intoxication, Hallucination, Imagination, and Modernity - Isabelle Moffat: The Physiology of Thought. Neuroplasticity in Lancelot Law Whyte's Model of «Unitary Thought» and Richard Hamilton's 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition - Yvonne Wübben: Reflexes in Brain Research. Images, Practices and Schemes - Jan Söffner: What Is It Like to Be With Bats? The Wisdom of Jean Painlevé - Fabienne Liptay: «The Limits of Control». Understanding Cinema Beyond Signs and Meanings - Warren Neidich: Excerpt Neuropower.