Geography, Memory and Non-Representational Geographies

Introduction: Geographies of Morality and Moralities of Geography

Beyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies

G eography as a discipline has evolved into a field of enormous breadth in the last century. While distinctive theoretical perspectives have emerged in different periods, the ebbs and flows of new approaches are often marked by vitriolic contestations. In response to articulations of new visions of what geography is or should be, debates often turned into antagonistic discourses that are surpri...

Non-Representational Interaction Design

This paper presents how non-representational views of cognition can inform interaction design as it moves from traditional graphical user interfaces to more bodily forms of interaction such as gesture or movement tracking. We argue that the true value of these “bodily” interfaces is that they can tap our prior skills for interacting in the world. However, these skills are highly non-representat...

Non-representational Sensorimotor Knowledge

The sensorimotor approach argues that in order to perceive one needs to first “master” the relevant sensorimotor contingencies, and then exercise the acquired practical know-how to become “attuned” to the actual and potential contingencies a particular situation entails. But the approach provides no further detail about how this mastery is achieved or what precisely it means to become attuned t...

Appraising Non-Representational Models

Many scientific models are non-representational in that they refer to merely possible processes, background conditions and results. The paper shows how such nonrepresentational models can be appraised, beyond the weak role that they might play as heuristic tools. Using conceptual distinctions from the discussion of how-possibly explanations, six types of models are distinguished by their modal ...