Imagining for Real : Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence (Paperback)

Part I: Creating the world Introduction to Part 1 1. Creation beyond creativity 2. Landscapes of perception, landscapes of imagination 3. Life in a whirl 4. Evolution in the minor key, or, the soul of wisdom 5. Dreaming of dragons Part II: Light, sound and experience Introduction to Part 2 6. What in the world is light? 7. Between noise and silence: on the meaning of sound 8. The cello and the lasso, or, five propositions on beauty 9. Episode zero: the reduction and revival of aesthetic experience Part III: Surface tensions Introduction to Part 3 10. The conical lodge at the centre of the earth-sky world 11. What if the city were an ocean, and its buildings ships? 12. Palimpsest: ground and page 13. On opening the book of surfaces 14. Strike-through and wipe-out: tactics for editing the past Part IV: Material thinking Introduction to Part 4 15. Of work and words: craft as a way of telling 16. Thinking through the cello 17. In the gathering shadows of material things 18. The world in a basket Part V: Life as a whole Introduction to Part 5 19. Animals are us: on living with other beings 20. Posthuman prehistory 21. The sustainability of everything 22. Confessions of a semiophobe 23. One world anthropology