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Space

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged , , on March 25, 2023 | Leave a Comment »

Like atoms and galaxies, days are full of space. What if the ways you take up this space—the pauses, transitions, and gaps between doings—shapes the world as much as the doings?* Do we fill the space with restless preoccupation? Death drive compulsions? Nervous uncertainty? Or curious delight at the poignancy of each thing?** What if […]

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Emotional practices, part 2: Affective construction, the triune self, & the art of joyful deliberation

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2020 | 1 Comment »

In part 1 of this article, I compared two recent books, each of which proclaims a “new paradigm” in the scientific study of emotions and affect: Lisa Feldman Barrett’s “constructivist” How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Stephen Asma’s and Rami Gabriel’s “basic emotions”-rooted The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition. In […]

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Emotional practices, part 1: Affective neuroscience

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2020 | 4 Comments »

The study of emotions, particularly within the field of affective neuroscience, is a complex field riven by paradigmatic division. In my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, I proposed a way to engage with one’s experience, including one’s emotional or affective experience, within an “eco-ethico-aesthetic” (or “logo-ethico-aesthetic”) practice that could help us deal with the “Anthropocene predicament.” […]

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