Performing Embodied Translations

Performing embodied identity in virtual worlds

Received: 25 January 2011 Revised: 3 August 2011 2nd Revision: 14 April 2012 3rd Revision: 24 July 2012 Accepted: 12 November 2012 Abstract Embodied identity, that is, who we are as a result of our interactions with the world around us with and through our bodies, is increasingly challenged in online environments where identity performances are seemingly untethered from the user’s body that is ...

Embodied listening, affordances and Performing with Computers

I consider here some contemporary approaches to the live performance of computer music. Drawing upon ideas of the embodied mind and the extended mind, I will outline a theory of embodied listening which problematises some of our assumptions about music, gesture and performance. Against the background of this theory, I will argue against approaches which put too great a focus upon gestural legib...

Translations

kant on the embodied cognition

Possible - Translations

This text aims at providing a bird's eye view of possible-translations semantics ([10, 24]), defined, developed and illustrated as a very comprehensive formalism for obtaining or for representing semantics for all sorts of logics. With that tool, a wide class of complex logics will very naturally turn out to be (de)composable by way of some suitable combination of simpler logics. Several exampl...