Contents
Metaplasticity 45
Material engagement: The analytical nexus
An ontological recommendation S1
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Il Outline of a Theory of Material Enigagement
4 The Extended Mind 57
Beyond cogpnitivism: Thinking outside the brain
The embodied mind 59
The distributed-cognition approach 66
Remembering through, or how a Linear B tablet helps you forget 68
The intelligent use of clay 69
Were it to happen in the head: From “parity” to “complementarity” and
beyond 73
The hypothesis of the constitutive intertwining of cognition with material
culture 77
Things matter: The coupling-constitution fallac,
Being where? The locational fallacy 82
The affect of engagement 85
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5 The Enactive Sign 89
Moving beyond representation 89
The fallacy of the linguistic sign 90
Searching for the properties of the material sign 94
The enactive logic of the material sign 96
Projections through matter 99
Material anchors and integrative projections 103
Making numbers out of clay 106
Learning to count in the Neolithic 111
The material sign and the meaning of engagement 116
6 Material Agency 119
Material culture and agency 119
Toward a non-anthropocentric conception
Actor-Network Theory 123
The argument for material agency 133
Methodological fetishism 133
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