RE: [xmca] Tom Toolery

["Paula M Towsey" <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za>]

Wow, Lucas - THANKS!


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Subject: RE: [xmca] Tom Toolery


As far as I know "the man with the stick" example appears in Steps to an Ecology of Mind(Bateson, 1972). This example is widely used by Lambros Malafouris, a cognitive archaeologists at Cambridge who tries to develop a new theory on material engagement and the extended mind thesis (Clark, 2008; Clark & Chalmers). Some of his papers can be downloaded from his webpage:


http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?lm243


Malafouris co-edited the book The Cognitive Life of Things: Archaeology,
Material Engagement and the Extended Mind. Cambridge: McDonald Institute
Monographs. This book came out a few months ago. 


On this link you can also find an interesting paper on material memories and the
extended mind: 


http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/CognitiveLifeOfThings.htm


There is another book on the social life of things which might be of interest: 


Appadurai, A. (ed.). (1986). The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural
Perspective.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 




Hope this helps,


Lucas




On October 14, 2010 at 8:40 AM Paula M Towsey <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:

> Hello Andy-of-the-5-o'clock-shadow
> 
> Yet it's a different kind of gnashing of teeth (and wailing and weeping)
> when the baboons at Third Bridge get stuck into the tinned supplies...
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> Paula
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> My answer, Paula: yes.
> My body, with its various parts, is an artefact; according to context,
> symbol or tool.
> My face and my 5 o'clock shadow is a symbol just as much as the shirt I
> wear. My teeth a tool just as much as a can opener.
> 
> Andy
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> Paula M Towsey wrote:
> > For some inexplicable reason while watching Mike's blind man with a 
> > stick video, I remembered smsing Carol with a quirky question: if a 
> > researcher without a knife is trying to open an airline packet of 
> > peanuts, and she resorts to using her teeth, what tool is she using?
> >
> > Though, perhaps the better question would be - is she using a tool.?
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Lucas M. Bietti
Macquarie University
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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