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Embodiment and Identity Readings -- final list

I'll be reading things like the following (soon to be ordered and put into APA format)

  1. How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles (1999)
    • chapters 6, 8, and excerpts from the rest
  2. What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Literacy and Learning, by James Paul Gee (2003)
  3. Situated Language And Learning: A Critique Of Traditional Schooling by James Paul Gee (2004)
  4. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction by Paul Dourish (2001)
  5. Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being by Lakoff, G. and Núñez, R. (2000)
    • Preface, Introduction, and skim through rest.
  6. Lakoff, G. & Núñez, R. (1997). "Metaphorical structure of mathematics: sketching out cognitive foundations for a mind-based mathematics". In English, L (Ed.) Mathematical reasoning: analogies, metaphors, and images. (pp 21-89) Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Other Selections

Understanding that for knowledge to be official it must have the consensus of the community that uses it, I spent considerable time Googling terms, and reading entries in Wikipedia, Princeton's WordNet critiques of the chapters, books (including even Amazon customer critiques), and of other articles by the authors, as well as the authors' own web presences, to further (attempt to) understand the main points in embodiment. Those that were useful to me I credited through hyperlinks on my blog.

I also made extensive use of the in-class comments, and those of Katie Clinton and other friends who, although they weren't invested in the subject, had to put up with my constant questioning about it. All often challenged me to look further or reexamine the views I held -- sometimes I maintained my views; other times I adjusted them.

English Department Group

Justin, and some other folks in the English Department who are starting a reading group on embodiment that met on Friday afternoons in the English department library. I didn't have the time to join them. Perhaps next year...