N. Katherine Hayles: Rethinking the Mind of Architecture
Monday, Nov 23, 20155:40 AMEDT
| SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CARelated
Mon, Nov 23, 7pm W.M. Keck Lecture Hall The culturally dominant view of the human mind has always influenced architectural aesthetics--whether rational, fraught with traumas, or colored by the unconscious. Recent research in neuroscience has confirmed a level of neuronal processing inaccessible to consciousness but crucial for higher-level thought, which I call the cognitive nonconscious. This lecture will explain the functions specific to the cognitive nonconscious and the transformed view of cognition that it suggests, and its aesthetic implications will be explored through contemporary fictions. The conclusion will suggest how this perspective leads to a more empathic and encompassing view of planetary cognitive ecologies. N. Katherine Hayles is the James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She writes and teaches on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research has been recognized by numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, and a Presidential Research Fellowship at the University of California. In 2015 she served as the Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her book “How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics” won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book “Writing Machines” won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her present book project is entitled “The Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities.” http://sciarc.edu/lectures.php?id=2426
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