Narrative Railroading DOI Creative Commons
Lucy Osler

Topoi, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Abstract The narratives we have about ourselves are important for our sense of who are. However, influenced, even manipulated, by the people and environments interact with, impacting self-understanding. This can lead to that limited, harmful. In this paper, I explore how narrative agency is constrained, greater lesser degrees, through a process call ‘narrative railroading’. Bringing together work on 4E cognition, specifically using features socio-material support construct does not simply offer up possibilities creating more reliable accurate self-narratives (Heersmink 2020) but increasingly tight railroading. To illustrate idea, analyse digital technologies do neutrally distribute dynamically shape mould in ways restrict self-understanding, with potentially harmful consequences. As such, argue need recognise devices only as powerful devices, shaping propagating kinds self-ascribe act accordance with.

Language: Английский

Disabled Body‐Minds in Hostile Environments: Disrupting an Ableist Cartesian Sociotechnical Imagination with Enactive Embodied Cognition and Critical Disability Studies DOI Creative Commons
Janna van Grunsven

Topoi, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 44(2), P. 505 - 515

Published: Aug. 22, 2024

Abstract A growing body of literature in the field embodied situated cognition is drawing attention to hostile ways which our environments can be constructed, with detrimental effects on people’s ability flourish as environmentally beings. This paper contributes this research, focusing a specific area concern. Specifically, I argue that very particular problematic quasi-Cartesian picture human body, mind, what it means for these function well, and role technology promoting such functioning, animate Western sociotechnical imagination. picture, show, shapes niches we inhabit an ableist manner, perniciously legislating body-minds have access rich world affordances are seen agential valuable. Because commitments animating imagination pervasive, exposing reimagining should prime focal point those working at intersection science, technology, values. present insights from enactive 4E critical disability studies fruitful resources much-needed reimagining. also make case, more provocatively but tentatively, view bodily minded well- functioning Cartesian not only damaging minds who deviate presumed norm, creating inaccessible worlds some us; fact threat planetary flourishing large.

Language: Английский

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Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time DOI Creative Commons
Saulius Geniušas

Emotion Review, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 10, 2024

Situating phenomenological reflections on nostalgia within a historical context, I argue that Kant's temporalization of remains incomplete. Bringing into question the widespread assumption object must be past, can spoken in three fundamental ways: as for present, and future. further clarify relation between forms here distinguished, some other have been addressed literature. conclude with contention characteristic feature present-day is it more often lived through not only past but also present

Language: Английский

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Narrative Railroading DOI Creative Commons
Lucy Osler

Topoi, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Abstract The narratives we have about ourselves are important for our sense of who are. However, influenced, even manipulated, by the people and environments interact with, impacting self-understanding. This can lead to that limited, harmful. In this paper, I explore how narrative agency is constrained, greater lesser degrees, through a process call ‘narrative railroading’. Bringing together work on 4E cognition, specifically using features socio-material support construct does not simply offer up possibilities creating more reliable accurate self-narratives (Heersmink 2020) but increasingly tight railroading. To illustrate idea, analyse digital technologies do neutrally distribute dynamically shape mould in ways restrict self-understanding, with potentially harmful consequences. As such, argue need recognise devices only as powerful devices, shaping propagating kinds self-ascribe act accordance with.

Language: Английский

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