Schismogenesis: An unavowable community
My session in this series is on 'Cognitive Science in the Theories and
Practice of Performance' and there are two bits of advance reading:
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Metaphors we live by (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1980) Chapters 4-6 pages 14-32
George Lakoff Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal
about the mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) Case
Study 1 pages 380-415
The questions I'd like to pose about these are as follows:
* Are these accounts of the mind merely stating what is blindingly obvious,
or do you find them fresh and illuminating?
* What are consequences for performance studies of this insistence that we
think with our bodies as much as (or at least as well as) our brains?
* Is the account of the ways that rape is conceptualized offered in Lakoff
1987 compatible with a feminist understanding of the nature of sexual
violence?
Gabriel
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