Contemporary philosophers tend to become interested in Aquinas’s conception of the mind when they perceive it as possibly offering a promising alternative between “the Scylla of materialism and the Charybdis of dualism”. They tend to become disillusioned, however, when they run into the problem of the apparent inconsistency in Aquinas’s conception. Furthermore, if they manage somehow to get ove...

Employees in many contemporary organizations work with flexible routines and flexible technologies. When those employees find that they are unable to achieve their goals in the current environment, how do they decide whether they should change the composition of their routines or the materiality of the technologies with which they work? The perspective advanced in this paper suggests that the a...

This article discusses spatial experience in games, in relation to other media. A brief review of some classic works on spatial experience in literature, photography, cinema and television is presented. A theoretical framework composed of three ‘types of space’ is used for an analysis of a hypothetical simplified gameplay. As a result, the spatial experience of games is understood as a dynamic ...

This article examines a systemic innovation model into which the relational approach of actor-network theory (ANT) has been incorporated. The article examines what the relational approach can contribute to the conceptualization of services and to the co-development and co-design activities of them. The article operates in the context of public welfare and health services, but its analysis might...

We respond to the call for more research into entanglement between multiple (including non-visual and non-verbal) modes of communication within organizations by exploring relationships rhetoric materiality. draw on archival sources concerning Founder’s Building at Royal Holloway College (1874–1897). discuss building as a multimodal material object, inherently multiple, fluid messy: is open enco...