Abstract
What transpires in the unmediated space-time excess that moves, at once, between and alongside cognition and recognition, between and alongside formation and information, between and alongside prehension and comprehension? Following upon their most recent books—N Katherine Hayles’ Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Unconscious (University of Chicago, 2017) and Tony D Sampson’ s The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture (University of Minnesota, 2016), the convergences and divergences that emerge and weave throughout this conversation are quite revealing.
I continue to consider the lines that often seem drawn between education/technology, ‘human’/’machine’, conscious/nonconscious and so on…
An article I shared previously asked ‘How do machines think?’ Yet, from a critical posthumanist perspective, what does it mean ‘to think’?
I reflect on this question whilst exploring the ideas of ‘cognitive assemblages’ and ‘nonconscious cognition’ in this discussion between N. Katherine Hayles and Tony D. Sampson…