LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND

Bibliography

Books, papers, essays, and primary texts

Baars, Bernard — A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 1988). [Global Workspace theory; named in the "theories of mind" list.]
Ball, Philip — The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (Bodley Head / University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Bashō, Matsuo — Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道 / The Narrow Road to the Deep North / Narrow Road to the Interior), 1689–1694. Standard English edition: trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa (Penguin Classics, 1966); also trans. Sam Hamill (Shambhala, 1998). Japanese original at Aozora Bunko: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000119/card749.html
Behrens, Timothy E. J., Timothy H. Muller, James C. R. Whittington, Shirley Mark, Alon B. Baram, Kimberly L. Stachenfeld & Zeb Kurth-Nelson — "What Is a Cognitive Map? Organizing Knowledge for Flexible Behavior," Neuron 100(2), 2018, 490–509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.10.002
Bellmund, Jacob L. S., Peter Gärdenfors, Edvard I. Moser & Christian F. Doeller — "Navigating Cognition: Spatial Codes for Human Thinking," Science 362(6415), 2018, eaat6766. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6766 · Author PDF: https://scispace.com/pdf/navigating-cognition-spatial-codes-for-human-thinking-4l9th9mgpc.pdf
Benjamin, Walter — The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press, 1999); One-Way Street (1928); "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (1935–39). [The flâneur, distraction as reception, the Schwelle/threshold.]
Bond, Michael — Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (Picador, 2020). Publisher record: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538576/wayfinding
Brentano, Franz — Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874). [Intentionality as the mark of the mental.] German original at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/psychologievomem01bren
Bridle, James — Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines — The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (Allen Lane / FSG, 2022). Author page: https://jamesbridle.com/books/ways-of-being
Burckhardt, Lucius — "Design Is Invisible" (1980).
Burckhardt, Lucius — "Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation" (1996), trans. Jill Denton, in Lucius Burckhardt: Writings — Rethinking Man-made Environments (Springer, 2012); reprinted in Why Is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology (Birkhäuser, 2015). Full English PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/3/36/Burckhardt_Lucius_1996_2012_Strollological_Observations_on_Perception_of_the_Environment_and_the_Tasks_Facing_Our_Generation.pdf
Burckhardt, Lucius — Why Is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology, ed. Markus Ritter & Martin Schmitz (Birkhäuser, 2015). https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783038210566/html
Burckhardt, Lucius — The Minimal Intervention (Eng. ed. 2024, Martin Schmitz Verlag).
Buzsáki, György — Rhythms of the Brain (Oxford University Press, 2006). [Cited in Handout Three for replay hardening walked paths into memory.] https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301069.001.0001
Certeau, Michel de — The Practice of Everyday Life (1980; trans. Steven Rendall, University of California Press, 1984), esp. ch. VII "Walking in the City." ["Space is a practiced place," p. 117.]
Chatwin, Bruce — The Songlines (Jonathan Cape, 1987).
Churchland, Paul M. — "Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes," Journal of Philosophy 78(2), 1981, 67–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2025900 [With Patricia Churchland; named in the "theories of mind" list.]
Clark, Andy — Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (Oxford University Press, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190217013.001.0001
Clark, Andy & David Chalmers — "The Extended Mind," Analysis 58(1), 1998, 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/58.1.7 · Free text: https://consc.net/papers/extended.html
Constantinescu, Alexandra O., Jill X. O'Reilly & Timothy E. J. Behrens — "Organizing Conceptual Knowledge in Humans with a Gridlike Code," Science 352(6292), 2016, 1464–1468. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf0941
Crawford, Matthew B. — The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
Dante Alighieri — Inferno, Canto I (c. 1320), trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1001
Debord, Guy — "Théorie de la dérive" / "Theory of the Dérive," Les Lèvres Nues 9 (1956); Internationale Situationniste 2 (1958). English text: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/theory.html [See also The Naked City map, 1957.]
Dehaene, Stanislas — Consciousness and the Brain (Viking, 2014). [Global workspace; named in the "theories of mind" list.]
Descartes, René — Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59
Devlin, Christopher (ed.) — The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford University Press, 1959). [Commentary contesting Peters on inscape/haecceitas.]
Di Paolo, Ezequiel, Thomas Buhrmann & Xabier Barandiaran — Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal (Oxford University Press, 2017). [Enactivism; named in the "theories of mind" list.]
Dickinson, Emily — "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" (c. 1862), Fr598 / J632. Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242
Dillard, Annie — "Seeing," in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper's Magazine Press, 1974).
Dōgen, Eihei — "Sansuikyō" / "Mountains and Waters Sutra" (1240), from Shōbōgenzō. Common English version: trans. Kazuaki Tanahashi, in Moon in a Dewdrop (North Point Press, 1985). Sōtō Zen Text Project: https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Mountains_and_Waters_Sutra.htm
Donnellan, Declan — The Actor and the Target (Nick Hern Books, 2002; rev. eds. 2005, 2019). Here is the first chapter.
Donnellan, Declan — The Actor and the Space (Nick Hern Books, 2024). https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/the-actor-and-the-space
Fiebelkorn, Ian C. & Sabine Kastner — "A Rhythmic Theory of Attention," Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23(2), 2019, 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.11.009
Fodor, Jerry — The Language of Thought (Harvard University Press, 1975). [Functionalism/computationalism.]
Friston, Karl — "The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?," Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 2010, 127–138. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2787
Gardner, W. H. — Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889): A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition, 2 vols. (Secker & Warburg / Oxford University Press, 1944–49). [Source of the species specialissima reading of inscape.]
Gendlin, Eugene T. — Focusing (Everest House, 1978); Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning (Free Press, 1962). [Origin of "felt sense."] https://focusing.org/felt-sense/what-felt-sense
Gibson, James J. — The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Houghton Mifflin, 1979; Psychology Press classic ed. 2014), esp. ch. 8 "The Theory of Affordances."
Gibson, James J. — "The Theory of Affordances," in R. Shaw & J. Bransford (eds.), Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1977), 67–82.
Gros, Frédéric — A Philosophy of Walking (2008; trans. John Howe, Verso, 2014).
Hafting, Torkel, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden, May-Britt Moser & Edvard I. Moser — "Microstructure of a Spatial Map in the Entorhinal Cortex," Nature 436, 2005, 801–806. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03721 [The grid-cell discovery.]
Harley, J. B. — "Deconstructing the Map," Cartographica 26(2), 1989, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3138/E635-7827-1757-9H7V
Heidegger, Martin — Die Kategorien- und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus (habilitation, 1915). [Heidegger link discussed via Llewelyn.]
Hiott, Andrea — Holding Paradox: The Navigational Approach to Mind.
Hiott, Andrea — Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale: From Remembering to Navigating
Hopkins, Gerard Manley — "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (c. 1877). Public domain: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/as-kingfishers-catch-fire-dragonflies-draw-flame
Hopkins, Gerard Manley — The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. Humphry House & Graham Storey (Oxford University Press, 1959). [The 1868 Parmenides notes: first appearance of "inscape" and "instress."]
Illich, Ivan — Tools for Conviviality (Harper & Row, 1973). Full text: https://archive.org/details/toolsforconvivia00illi
Illich, Ivan — Energy and Equity (Calder & Boyars, 1974). Full text: https://archive.org/details/energyequity0000illi
Ingold, Tim — Lines: A Brief History (Routledge, 2007). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203961155
Ingold, Tim — Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (Routledge, 2011), esp. "Against Space: Place, Movement, Knowledge" and "Footprints Through the Weather-World." https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203818336
James, William — The Principles of Psychology, 2 vols. (Henry Holt, 1890), esp. ch. IV "Habit" and ch. XI "Attention." Full text: https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/
Klee, Paul — Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925). ["A drawing is simply a line going for a walk" — as transmitted through Ingold.]
Kelly, Lynne — The Memory Code (Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus, 2017).
kollektiv orangotango+ (eds.) — This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies (transcript Verlag, 2018). Open access, full PDF: https://notanatlas.org/book/ · https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445198
Korzybski, Alfred — Science and Sanity (1933). ["The map is not the territory."]
Leroi-Gourhan, André — Le Geste et la parole, 2 vols. (Albin Michel, 1964–65) / Gesture and Speech, trans. Anna Bostock Berger (MIT Press, 1993). [Technique, gesture, and the chaîne opératoire; the walking, tool-using body as the ground of thought and memory — the deep prehistory behind Ingold's wayfaring.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Leroi-Gourhan
Llewelyn, John — Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400930.001.0001
Lu Xun — "Hometown" (故乡), in Call to Arms (呐喊, 1923). [Closing lines on hope and roads made by walking.]
Machado, Antonio — "Proverbios y cantares," XXIX, in Campos de Castilla (1912). Public domain; Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/campos-de-castilla--0/
Macfarlane, Robert — The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hamish Hamilton, 2012).
Maguire, Eleanor A., David G. Gadian, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Catriona D. Good, John Ashburner, Richard S. J. Frackowiak & Christopher D. Frith — "Navigation-Related Structural Change in the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers," PNAS 97(8), 2000, 4398–4403. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597
Massey, Doreen — For Space (SAGE, 2005).
McGilchrist, Iain — The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale University Press, 2009).
McGilchrist, Iain — The Matter With Things (Perspectiva Press, 2021).
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice — Phénoménologie de la perception (1945) / Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Donald Landes (Routledge, 2012), esp. "The Spatiality of One's Own Body and Motility." https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203720714
The Body as Mediator (easier intro to Merleau-Ponty)
Morton, Timothy — The Ecological Thought (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Morton, Timothy — Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
Murdoch, Iris — The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).
Nagel, Thomas — "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?," The Philosophical Review 83(4), 1974, 435–450. https://doi.org/10.2307/2183914
Neale, Margo & Lynne Kelly — Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges series, Thames & Hudson Australia, 2020). https://thameshudson.com.au/product/songlines-the-power-and-promise/
Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014: John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain." Press release and scientific background ("an inner GPS"): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/press-release/ · Advanced information: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/advanced-information/
Noë, Alva — Action in Perception (MIT Press, 2004). [Enactivism.]
Odell, Jenny — How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Melville House, 2019).
O'Keefe, John & Jonathan Dostrovsky — "The Hippocampus as a Spatial Map: Preliminary Evidence from Unit Activity in the Freely-Moving Rat," Brain Research 34(1), 1971, 171–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(71)90358-1 [The place-cell discovery.]
O'Keefe, John & Lynn Nadel — The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map (Oxford University Press, 1978). Full text free (rights reverted to the authors): http://www.cognitivemap.net · https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620894
O'Keefe, John & Lynn Nadel — "Précis of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2(4), 1979, 487–494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00063949
Oliver, Mary — Upstream: Selected Essays (Penguin Press, 2016). ["Attention is the beginning of devotion."]
Peluso, Nancy Lee — "Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia," Antipode 27(4), 1995, 383–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1995.tb00286.x [Coins "counter-mapping."]
Perec, Georges — Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien (1975) / An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, trans. Marc Lowenthal (Wakefield Press, 2010).
Perl, Sondra — Felt Sense: Writing with the Body (Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 2004).
Peters, W. A. M. — Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Essay Towards the Understanding of His Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1948; repr. 1970).
Place, U. T. — "Is Consciousness a Brain Process?," British Journal of Psychology 47(1), 1956, 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1956.tb00560.x
Plato — Meno (c. 380 BCE), the learner's paradox (80d). Public domain, trans. Jowett: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1643
Putnam, Hilary — "The Nature of Mental States" (1967), in Mind, Language and Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1975). [Functionalism, multiple realizability.]
Randolph, Sal — "Ways of Seeing: Spectacle," The Boat (Substack). https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-seeing-spectacle
Rutherglen, Michael — "Hopkins's Material Poetics: Sense and the Inscapes of Speech," Victorian Poetry 56(3), 2018, 249–268. https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2018.0016
Ryle, Gilbert — The Concept of Mind (Hutchinson, 1949). ["The ghost in the machine."]
Sei Shōnagon — Makura no Sōshi / The Pillow Book (c. 1002). Standard English: trans. Meredith McKinney (Penguin Classics, 2006); older public-domain trans. Arthur Waley (1928): https://archive.org/details/pillowbookofseis00seis
Shepherd, Nan — The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (written 1940s; Aberdeen University Press, 1977; Canongate, 2011).
Skinner, B. F. — Science and Human Behavior (Macmillan, 1953). [Behaviourism.] Free PDF: https://www.bfskinner.org/newtestsite/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ScienceHumanBehavior.pdf
Smart, J. J. C. — "Sensations and Brain Processes," The Philosophical Review 68(2), 1959, 141–156. https://doi.org/10.2307/2182164
Solnit, Rebecca — Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Viking, 2000). ["A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape," p. 54.]
Solnit, Rebecca — A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Viking, 2005), esp. "Open Door" and "The Blue of Distance."
Tavares, Rita Morais, Avi Mendelsohn, Yael Grossman, Christian Hamilton Williams, Matthew Shapiro, Yaacov Trope & Daniela Schiller — "A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain," Neuron 87(1), 2015, 231–243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.011
Thompson, Evan — Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007). [Enactivism.]
Thompson, Nato (ed.) — Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House / Independent Curators International, 2008). https://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Geography-Approaches-Landscape-Cartography/dp/0091636582 · Curatorial project: https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/experimental-geography
Thoreau, Henry David — Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), esp. "Conclusion." Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
Thoreau, Henry David — "Walking" (The Atlantic, 1862). Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1022
Tolman, Edward C. — "Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men," Psychological Review 55(4), 1948, 189–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061626 · Full text free: https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Tolman/Maps/maps.htm
Tononi, Giulio — "An Information Integration Theory of Consciousness," BMC Neuroscience 5:42, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-5-42
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt — The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton University Press, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873548
Tversky, Barbara — Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought (Basic Books, 2019). [The Nine Laws of Cognition; Law 6: "Spatial thinking is the foundation of abstract thought."] Review: https://undark.org/2019/06/28/mind-in-motion-review/
Uexküll, Jakob von — Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen (1934) / A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, trans. Joseph D. O'Neil (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
Varda, Agnès — Les Plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès (film, 2008). ["If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes."]
Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch — The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991; rev. ed. 2016).
Weil, Simone — La Pesanteur et la Grâce (1947) / Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr (Routledge, 2002).
Weil, Simone — "Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God" (1942), in Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd (Putnam, 1951). [Attention as prayer; see also the letter to Joë Bousquet for "the rarest and purest form of generosity" — verify attribution.]
Whitman, Walt — "There Was a Child Went Forth," in Leaves of Grass (1855). Public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322
Williams, James — Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Open access (CC BY-NC): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/3F8D7BA2C0FE3A7126A4D9B73A89415D · https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004
Williams, Raymond — Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1977). ["Structures of feeling" — the probable second "Williams" flagged in the Session Two draft; needs confirming.]
Wu, Tim — The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (Knopf, 2016).
Yarbus, Alfred L. — Eye Movements and Vision, trans. Basil Haigh (Plenum Press, 1967). [The scanpath studies; "The Unexpected Visitor."] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5379-7
Yates, Frances A. — The Art of Memory (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).
Yunkaporta, Tyson — Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Text Publishing, 2019).
Zhuangzi — Zhuangzi, ch. 2 ("Qiwulun" / "The Adjustment of Controversies"), 4th c. BCE: 道行之而成 — "a road is made by walking it." Chinese text with Legge translation: https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/adjustment-of-controversies
Zuboff, Shoshana — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (PublicAffairs, 2019).
Zwicky, Jan — Lyric Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 1992; rev. ed. Brush Education, 2014).

Websites, media, and collective projects

Center for Humane Technology — https://www.humanetech.com [Tristan Harris, "the race to the bottom of the brain stem."]
Crossref-it.info — "Inscape and instress" (explainer on Hopkins). https://crossref-it.info/textguide/gerard-manley-hopkins-selected-poems/38/2554
Dayrit, Cian — embroidered counter-maps; Philippines chapter in This Is Not an Atlas. https://notanatlas.org
The Decolonial Atlas — https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com
GerardManleyHopkins.org — "Studies / Philosophy" essay on Hopkins and Duns Scotus. https://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org
Thompson, Nainoa — master navigator, Polynesian Voyaging Society; first Hawaiian in centuries to navigate long-distance by non-instrument wayfinding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainoa_Thompson
Hōkūleʻa / Polynesian Voyaging Society — non-instrument wayfinding. https://hokulea.com
Lang, Gerhard — Mobile Zebra Crossing (1993). [Strollological intervention, discussed with Burckhardt.]
McGilchrist, Iain — "The Divided Brain," RSA Animate (2011, ~11 min). https://www.thersa.org/animate
notanatlas.org — counter-cartography galleries and the open-access book. https://notanatlas.org