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    Apperceptive patterning: Artefaction, extensional beliefs and cognitive scaffolding

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    In “Psychopower and Ordinary Madness” my ambition, as it relates to Bernard Stiegler’s recent literature, was twofold: 1) critiquing Stiegler’s work on exosomatization and artefactual posthumanism—or, more specifically, nonhumanism—to problematize approaches to media archaeology that rely upon technical exteriorization; 2) challenging how Stiegler engages with Giuseppe Longo and Francis Bailly’s conception of negative entropy. These efforts were directed by a prevalent techno-cultural qualifier: the rise of Synthetic Intelligence (including neural nets, deep learning, predictive processing and Bayesian models of cognition). This paper continues this project but first directs a critical analytic lens at the Derridean practice of the ontologization of grammatization from which Stiegler emerges while also distinguishing how metalanguages operate in relation to object-oriented environmental interaction by way of inferentialism. Stalking continental (Kapp, Simondon, Leroi-Gourhan, etc.) and analytic traditions (e.g., Carnap, Chalmers, Clark, Sutton, Novaes, etc.), we move from artefacts to AI and Predictive Processing so as to link theories related to technicity with philosophy of mind. Simultaneously drawing forth Robert Brandom’s conceptualization of the roles that commitments play in retrospectively reconstructing the social experiences that lead to our endorsement(s) of norms, we compliment this account with Reza Negarestani’s deprivatized account of intelligence while analyzing the equipollent role between language and media (both digital and analog)

    On the Learning of geometric concepts using Dynamic Geometry Software

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    Many results on computer mediated geometry learning conclude about different heuristic approaches to problem solving with Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS). However, little is described concerning conceptualization process. We used a theoretical framework built upon constructivist foundations for analyzing mediated learning of specific geometrical concepts. Our point is illustrated in a case study in which we analyzed studentsĂ­ interaction with a DGS. Our results points to a clear mapping of potential conceptualization of geometry in software using.Many results on computer mediated geometry learning conclude about different heuristic approaches to problem solving with Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS). However, little is described concerning conceptualization process. We used a theoretical framework built upon constructivist foundations for analyzing mediated learning of specific geometrical concepts. Our point is illustrated in a case study in which we analyzed studentsĂ­ interaction with a DGS. Our results points to a clear mapping of potential conceptualization of geometry in software using

    Less sculptural more intellectual: conceptualizing landscape in the architecture of 1990s and 2000s

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    The aim of this paper is to discuss the radical shift which emerges in the 1990s and enhances architecture in the 2000s by turning it into a less sculptural more intellectual field of design. Hence, architects rather focus on ground than figure in design projects. This leads them to interrogate the conventional relationships between figure and ground enabling figure to dominate the ground in architecture for decades. They discover the mutual relationships between figure and ground, and design grounded structures instead of ungrounded sculptures. These artificial structures seem like the extensions of the natural landscape, as such the conceptual and categorical distinction between artificial and natural blurs in architecture. Another conceptual blurring emerges between the concepts of landscape, ground, and field. These are generally used as interchangeable concepts, but landscape encompasses ground and field, making it a more comprehensive concept for architects. It is revealed in the paper that landscape is a re-emerging concept which refers to the conceptual shift from form and function to flow and force in architecture. Landscape, therefore, awaits to be explored as a field of flows and forces by even more architects in this century in which cities are characterized by sculptural forms and objects

    Spontaneity and Materiality: What Photography Is in the Photography of James Welling

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    Images are double agents. They receive information from the world, while also projecting visual imagination onto the world. As a result, mind and world tug our thinking about images, or particular kinds of images, in contrary directions. On one common division, world traces itself mechanically in photographs, whereas mind expresses itself through painting.1 Scholars of photography disavow such crude distinctions: much recent writing attends in detail to the materials and processes of photography, the agency of photographic artists, and the social determinants of the production and reception of photographs. As such writing makes plain, photographs cannot be reduced to mechanical traces.2 Yet background conceptions of photography as trace or index persist almost by default, as no framework of comparable explanatory power has yet emerged to replace them. A conception of photography adequate to developments in recent scholarship is long overdue. Rather than constructing such a conception top-down, as philosophers are wont to do, this paper articulates it by examining selected works by James Welling.3 There are several reasons for this: Welling’s practice persistently explores the resources and possibilities of photography, the effect of these explorations is to express a particular metaphysics of the mind’s relation to its world, and appreciating why this metaphysics is aptly expressed by exploring photography requires a revised conception of what photography is. In as much as it provides a framework for a richer interpretation of Welling, the new conception is also capable of underwriting a wide range of critical and historical approaches to photography

    Translation and normativity

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    Property as Legal Knowledge: Means and Ends

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    This article takes anthropologists’ renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct – the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, the anthropology of property should devote itself to articulating its own means

    Valuation practices, value conflicts and coordination in urban development: The case of active frontages design in urban regeneration

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    This thesis contributes to an ongoing discussion between the classic field of urban studies and the emerging field of valuation\ua0studies, the latter being devoted to the study of valuation as a social practice (Helgesson and Muniesa, 2013).The thesis is oriented around the questions of: How valuation practices in urban development can be conceptualized; Why\ua0certain articulations of value gain legitimacy rather than others, and; How friction between values are expressed and resolved.\ua0The questions are explored through an ethnographically inspired case study on the development of active frontages in the\ua0area of Masthuggskajen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The case is presented in two papers. The first paper develops a framework\ua0by Metzger and Wiberg (2017) to study the framing of urban qualities and values in inter-organizational urban regeneration,\ua0whilst the second paper builds on the work of Stark (2009) and Far\uedas (2015) to explore the mundane practices and strategies\ua0employed to coordinate value conflicts in urban-codesign.The thesis illustrates how valuation practices in urban development can be construed as an omnipresent practice where\ua0human actors and artifacts collectively articulate the value of urban space. The thesis also highlights the role that mundane\ua0strategies and practices of coordination play in framing certain accounts of value as legitimate rather than others. Finally, the\ua0thesis portrays value conflicts as an omnipresent phenomenon, the resolution of which happens through various mundane\ua0strategies and practices of coordination

    Governing through personal assistance: a Bulgarian case

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    This paper brings together concepts from the domains of disability studies, governmentality studies and Actor-Network Theory in order to develop a micro-level analysis of a scheme for the provision of personal assistance for disabled people, currently administered by the Sofia Municipality in Bulgaria. The workfare conditionality embedded in the scheme’s needs assessment procedure is highlighted and subjected to critique. The micro-level analysis is deployed on the background of wider, macro-level observations concerning the neoliberal mode of government and its relations to subjectivity and freedom. The conclusion suggests practical policy alternatives in line with the Independent Living philosophy and practice

    Hybrid-dynamic objects: DGS environments and conceptual transformations

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    A few theoretical perspectives have been taken under consideration the meaning of an object as the result of a process in mathematical thinking. Building on their work, I shall investigate the meaning of ‘object’ in a dynamic geometry environment. Using the recently introduced notions of dynamic-hybrid objects, diagrams and sections which complement our understanding of geometric processes and concepts as we perform actions in the dynamic software, I shall explain what could be considered to be a ‘procept-in-action’. Finally, a few examples will be analyzed through the lenses of hybrid and dynamic objects in terms of how I designed them. A few snapshots of the research process will be presented to reinforce the theoretical considerations. My aim is to contribute to the field of the Didactics of Mathematics using ICT in relation to students’ cognitive developmen
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