Inside the Snow Globe: Pragmatisms, belief and the ambiguous objectivity of the imaginary

Whittaker, Emma (2015) Inside the Snow Globe: Pragmatisms, belief and the ambiguous objectivity of the imaginary. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 13 (3). pp. 275-284. ISSN ISSN 1477965X

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Relations between perceiving and knowing are well-worn problems that become visceral encounters with doubt and ambiguity in ‘mixed-reality’ environments. Locative narrative situates participants within stories where existent places function as the setting. Experiential confusion, between what is talked of as real and as imagined, is an often-reported phenomenon. Classical pragmatisms, and more broadly the writings of William James, understand the functioning of the body to be for the production of action, from which flows a naturalistic epistemology. for James, a thought’s reference to an object occurs in the medium of an ‘experienceable environment’ and is a condition of it being known; what something is known-as is how it functions in a particular context and the consequences that follow. Contemporary pragmatists express varying positions on the function of representation in perception at different levels of cognitive awareness, and the extent to which intentionality is derivative of linguistic norms. In the locative narrative iOS application The Lost Index No.1 – Landscape with Figures strategies of directing participant attention, movement, cognitive tasks and propositional content are used to guide the interpretation of events. The complex environment that is created plays with the multi-stability of perception and the ‘multi-stability meaning’ between terms, resulting in ambiguity and an enhanced flexibility of interpretation.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1386/tear.13.3.275_1
ISSN:	ISSN 1477965X
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design > Fine Art Philosophy & Psychology Communication Performing Arts > Music & Sound Computing & Data Science Computing & Data Science > Game Design Communication > Creative Writing
Courses by Department:	Academy of Innovation and Research
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Emma Whittaker
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2019 12:20
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 14:29
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3179

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