Temporality and metaplasticity. Facing extension and incorporation through material engagement theory

Parisi, Francesco

doi:10.1007/s11097-018-9599-2

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“…MET has indeed attended to other aspects such as enactive signification and its emphasis on embodied activity (e.g., Froese, 2019;Malafouris, 2013, 2016, Overmann, 2019Parisi, 2019;Prezioso & Alessandroni, 2022;Poulsgaard, 2019;Walls, 2019;Woodward, 2019). One exception is Ransom (2019) who briefly discusses the dynamic and asymmetrical relationality of agency and the self-constitution of bodies in the enactive literature, and highlights the potential of MET further engaging these and other ideas in 4E approaches.…”

Section: An Enactive Perspective On Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency

2023

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We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played by extra-bodily material flows in human practices, the term “material agency” does not sufficiently distinguish cases in which these flows are part of an agentive engagement from cases in which they are not. We propose an operational criterion to effect such a distinction. We claim this criterion is organizational, i.e., systemic, and not causal. In the enactive account, agency requires three organizational conditions: self-individuation, interactional asymmetry, and normativity. These conditions can have organic, sensorimotor, and sociomaterial realizations. The dance of human productive practices is indeed spread between brains, bodies, and the world, as MET claims, but it is distributed in an organized manner that involves constraints and norms at various scales. We put forward a relational and non-anthropocentric perspective toward an enactive approach to productive practices. We discuss some aspects of agentive ensembles rendered more intelligible by our proposal, including incorporation, soft assembly and non-decomposability, and the grounding of teleology normative processes at multiple scales. In this manner, we seek to continue the dialog between MET and enactive theory, beginning with the view that a situated system must realize certain minimal organizational conditions to be called an agent.

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Section: An Enactive Perspective On Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency

2023

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Material Engagement and Mediation: Two Necessary Concepts

Parisi

2022

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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The cyborg body: Potentials and limits of a body with prosthetic limbs

Pielli

Zlatev

2020

Cognitive Semiotics

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Living with an artificial limb is a reality for millions of people around the world, and it is not without its challenges. The body of the prosthesis user must adapt to the presence of an external aid and the user must learn how to act in the world by means of it. We analyze such a “cyborg body” with the help of a cognitive semiotic framework, benefiting from pheno-methodological triangulation, and the conceptual-empirical loop. Further, adopting a broad notion of phenomenological embodiment, with focus on both lived experience and external representations, we show that claims that “the cyborg” is the very nature of humanity are mistaken as they misrepresent the experiences of people with prosthetic limbs. Finally, we apply the Semiotic Hierarchy model to the levels of selfhood that need to be reconstructed when incorporating a prosthetic limb, distinguishing between subjective, intersubjective, and signitive levels. We conclude that the “lowest” level concerning the body schema, agency and ownership is hardest to reconstruct, supporting arguments for the centrality of proprioception for a sense of agency and ownership.

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Temporality and metaplasticity. Facing extension and incorporation through material engagement theory

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency

Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency

Material Engagement and Mediation: Two Necessary Concepts

The cyborg body: Potentials and limits of a body with prosthetic limbs

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