Distributed Perception : Resonances and Axiologies (Paperback)

Introduction Part I: Entanglement 1. Relational Philosophy: The Stars are Our Relatives 2. Turning Around and Upside Down: The Nomadic Rhythms of Rain Ants in Sarayaku 3. Do Media Have a Sense of Time? Chrono-technical Interoception 4. Oscilloscopes, Slide Rules and Nematodes: Towards Heterogenetic Perception in/of AI 5. Composing with Resonance, Sounding the Inaudible and Listening for More-than-One 6. The Discrete Charm of Systems Theories: Cybernetic Intelligence and Posthuman Art Environments Part II: Plasticity 7. Unstable Brains and Ordered Societies: On the Conceptual Origins of Plasticity, ca 1900 8. The Human and Nonhuman in the Capitalist production of Subjectivity 9. Resonance Between Sense, Plasticity and Biosemiosis 10. How We Never Became Posthuman: Homeostasis as Conflict from Claude Bernard to Norbert Wiener 11. Intra-Action in Data-Driven Systems: A Case Study in Creative Praxis Part III: Organology 12. Becoming-Distributed Matter: Dreaming and Extended Relationality Among Indigenous Australians 13. Two Painted Flies: Improvised Arts of Perception in Uexkull’s Picture Book of Invisible Worlds 14. From Physiological Aesthetics to Anthropological Poetics: Activating the Pictographs of Cerro Azul 15. The Relativity of Life: Cinema as Time Microscope 16. Battlebots, Machine Surrogates and the Organology of Violence Televisual Entertainment 17. Autobiographing our Computing Organs: Rereading Pastw Uses of Intel CPUs as Xenotransplantation Concluding Thoughts