"This book was supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology"--Page 2. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
V. Waiting for Gaia / Modeling / Bruno Latour. 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 / Tomas Saraceno ; Social strings / Tomas Saraceno ; Intuiting / Josh Tenenbaum ; Tracking / Natasha Schull ; Sense of self / Leah Kelly ; Lightning / Douglas Kahn ; Understanding / Alva Noe -- 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 / Renee Green ; Experience book / Michel Foucault, Duccio Trombadori ; Historicizing experience / Joan W. Scott ; Aisthesis / Jacques Ranciere ; Sensitizing / Bruno Latour ; Waiting for Gaia / Bruno Latour.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.