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Wow, Lucas - THANKS! -----Original Message----- From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Lucas Bietti Sent: 14 October 2010 16:05 To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: RE: [xmca] Tom Toolery As far as I know "the man with the stick" example appears in Steps to an Ecology of Mind(Bateson, 1972). This example is widely used by Lambros Malafouris, a cognitive archaeologists at Cambridge who tries to develop a new theory on material engagement and the extended mind thesis (Clark, 2008; Clark & Chalmers). Some of his papers can be downloaded from his webpage: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?lm243 Malafouris co-edited the book The Cognitive Life of Things: Archaeology, Material Engagement and the Extended Mind. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs. This book came out a few months ago. On this link you can also find an interesting paper on material memories and the extended mind: http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/CognitiveLifeOfThings.htm There is another book on the social life of things which might be of interest: Appadurai, A. (ed.). (1986). The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hope this helps, Lucas On October 14, 2010 at 8:40 AM Paula M Towsey <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote: > Hello Andy-of-the-5-o'clock-shadow > > Yet it's a different kind of gnashing of teeth (and wailing and weeping) > when the baboons at Third Bridge get stuck into the tinned supplies... > > Paula > > > > _________________________________ > Paula M Towsey > PhD Candidate: Universiteit Leiden > Faculty of Social Sciences > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On > Behalf Of Andy Blunden > Sent: 14 October 2010 13:19 > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity > Subject: Re: [xmca] Tom Toolery > > My answer, Paula: yes. > My body, with its various parts, is an artefact; according to context, > symbol or tool. > My face and my 5 o'clock shadow is a symbol just as much as the shirt I > wear. My teeth a tool just as much as a can opener. > > Andy > > Paula M Towsey wrote: > > For some inexplicable reason while watching Mike's blind man with a > > stick video, I remembered smsing Carol with a quirky question: if a > > researcher without a knife is trying to open an airline packet of > > peanuts, and she resorts to using her teeth, what tool is she using? > > > > Though, perhaps the better question would be - is she using a tool.? > > > > > > > > _________________________________ > > > > Paula M Towsey > > > > PhD Candidate: Universiteit Leiden > > > > Faculty of Social Sciences > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos > Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss > > > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca Lucas M. Bietti Macquarie University Universitat Pompeu Fabra lucas@bietti.org www.collectivememory.net _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca