cognitive science
Representation, Enaction, and the Ethics of Simulation
Do violent games train us for violence? Drawing on social psychology and cognitive science, Simon Penny examines the "ethics of simulation."
The Pleasures of Immersion and Interaction
J. Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon on the affective side of hypertexts via "schemas, scripts, and the fifth business."
Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age – and Academy
Matt Kirschenbaum on Richard Coyne's philosophical treatment of technographics.
Deleuze and Guattari, Cognitive Science, and Feminist Visual Arts: Kiki Smith’s Bodies Without Organs Without Bodies
Martin Rosenberg discusses Kiki Smith's feminist visual art and cognitive science.
N. Katherine Hayles responds
The "cognitive entailments" of a reader, or "interactor," are where Katherine Hayles redirects the new aesthetics of electronic textuality.
Simon Penny responds in turn
Simon Penny recalls that the origins of the human-computer interface, politicized by a military heritage, are now explored by artist-enigineers who chaperone fragmentation and dissent.