kit yettsfinally finished WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: HOW THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT SHAPES OUR LIVES, by sarah williams goldhagen. i honestly wish i had read it when i bought it, as i might've gotten more out of it.
it's quite accessible for a lay audience, i think. possibly too "lay" for me (a layperson with multiple special interests that overlap in this book). the tone is a little too "wow can you even imagine?" for me, and the author's...underlying philosophies show, without being well-examined.
kinda weird, also, that she's basically coming from 4e cognition, but only explicitly tags embodied & embedded (extended & enacted are represented without being named as such).
still, i did find myself taking some notes (usually a good sign), and i think i'll follow some threads from references in the book. some of which i already have on my shelf/TBR.
Joseph Miranda@cour13r5 I have found so many books that are jusssst on the edge of saying “hey this is an egregore” or something similar
@Yabestpal i would need to tip this one a bit to get it on the edge of "hey, individuals and collectives are in an always-ongoing dynamic of co-composition, and that includes nonhumans" but i don't think the author is there yet. it *almost* gets to relationality as a field. but, ultimately, it's not rich enough to act as a foundation for what i'm working with (but following references will probably get me closer)
"place-bound experiences constitute the very framework for our sense of self and perceived identity...the cognitive mechanics of autobiographical memory resituates the built environment inside us: it constitutes the internal architecture of our lives."
—sarah williams goldhagen, WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD
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