We’d like to welcome you to Sensate, a journal for experiments in critical media practice. Sensate is an online, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our aim is to build on the current groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and … More Sensate Journal » About
The Senses and Society The Senses and Society is a journal founded in 2006 by Michael Bull and David Howes, together with Doug Kahn and Paul Gilroy. It is published three times a year. The journal carries full-length articles and a range of reviews (sensory design, book, conference and exhibition). The inaugural issue is available … More The Senses and Society – Sensory Studies
New Scientist TV: Why there is no such thing as empty space. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1
The cold shoulder. A heavy topic. A heroic white knight. We regularly use concrete, sensory-rich metaphors like these to express abstract ideas and complicated emotions. But a growing body of research is suggesting that these metaphors are more than just colorful literary devices — there may be an underlying neural basis that literally embodies these … More APS Observer – The Body of Knowledge: Understanding Embodied Cognition
Cognition is embodied when it is deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, when aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain play a significant causal or physically constitutive role in cognitive processing. In general, dominant views in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science have considered the body … More Embodied Cognition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Digital ocean mapping and CGI technology vividly illustrate the mountains, plains, canyons and creatures of the deep as never seen before, revealing a world of almost unimaginable scale right here on Earth. The oceans cover three-quarters of our planet, hiding a whole other world beneath the waves. If we could pull an imaginary plug at … More Drain the Ocean | Watch Free Documentary Online
Quantum life: The weirdness inside us – life – 03 October 2011 – New Scientist.
Bacterial ‘wires’ an electronic dream – tech – 12 August 2011 – New Scientist.
The RSA animate youtube feed is very interesting….. Jeremy mentioned the mirror neurons discovery and there is a video explaining what this means about us….. It is incredible to see how our scientific knowledge is changing this days…. This coupled with the idea of social intelligence and the collective factor that researchers at canergie mellon … More Mirror neurons: we are empathic beings
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