My article “From Frames to Resonance Machines: The Neuropolitics of Environmental Communication” is coming out in the next issue of Environmental Communication. Here’s the abstract: George Lakoff’s work in cognitive linguistics has prompted a surge in social scientists’ interest in the cognitive and neuropsychological dimensions of political discourse. Bringing cognitive neuroscience into the study of […]
Posts Tagged ‘cognition’
neuropolitics & environmental communication
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged affect, cognition, Connolly, environmental communication, Lakoff, neuropolitics on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
climate change supermodeling?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged cognition, ecomedia, environmental communication on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY&hl=en&fs=1& Also published at Indications. Having just written a piece for Environmental Communication about the promises and pitfalls of cognitive science-based approaches to communicating about issues like climate change, I can’t help commenting on this video and blog post that arrived this morning on my blog reader from identity campaigning, re-posted from Cognitive Policy Works. […]
from Huxley to Obama & NLP
Posted in Politics, tagged cognition, embodiment, Huxley, neuropolitics on April 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve mentioned Aldous Huxley here before. This 1958 interview with Mike Wallace shows him to be as broad-rangingly perceptive as anyone at the time – with insightful comments on persuasion techniques, Foucauldian surveillance and control (before Foucault wrote a word about the topic), television (which he thought was already “being used too much to distract […]
imagination & contemporary theory
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged affect, cognition, Continental philosophy, Deleuze, enchantment, imagination, Jung, theory, visuality on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a summary I provided to a grad student who was starting to get into this area. It’s very introductory and far from complete in its coverage, but since there’s so little out there on this topic, I thought it would be useful to post it. It’s also a bit biased towards literature that’s […]