This paper responds to Espen Aarseth’s provocative proposition about the way First Person Shooter games reveal a fundamental modality of human experience by embodying a dialectic of “aporia and epiphany.” It is argued that if the First Person Shooter Doom tells us something fundamental about living today, then this is because of the programmatic nature of the prevailing cybernetic world view of...

These are interesting times for the Embodied Music Cognition (EMC) framework. Briefly summarized, EMC relies upon the hypothesis that embodied sensorimotor engagement is essential to both production and perception of music (Leman, 2008; Leman and Maes, 2014). This hypothesis, while suitable for accommodating different research methods used in empirical musicology (Godøy and Leman, 2010), may be...