Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies

Deleuze's "visibilities" refer to visual perception as a physiological given that cues operations productive of new assemblages. Perceptibilities are spatio-temporal, geolocative, kinaesthetic, audio-visual, and haptic operations that are always already memory. Resonance is the tendency of a system to vibrate with increasing amplitudes at certain frequencies of excitation, and it denotes the axiology of positions and events in Native science. This transdisciplinary volume examines the becoming-technique of animal-human-machinic perceptibilities and micro-perceptions that create energetic vibrations, highlighting distributed perception as a key notion in addressing the emergence and peristence of plant, animal, human, and machine relations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Who, what, and where perceives, and how? What are the sedimentations, inscriptions, and axiologies of animal, human, and machinic perception/s? What are their perceptibilities? Deleuze uses the word 'visibilities' to indicate that visual perception isn't just a physiological given but cues operations productive of new assemblages. Perceptibilities are, by analogy, spatio-temporal, geolocative, kinaesthetic, audio-visual, and haptic operations that are always already memory. In the case of strong inscriptions, they are also epigenetic events.

In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to vibrate with increasing amplitudes at certain frequencies of excitation. In cybernetics and in theories of technology, it refers to systems feedback. In Native science, resonance denotes the axiology of positions and events. Its a form of multi-species perception that emphasises emergent directionality and protean mnemonics.

This transdisciplinary volume brings together key theorists and practitioners from media theory, Native science, bio-media and sound art, philosophy, art history, and design informatics to examine: a) the becoming-technique of animal– human–machinic perceptibilities; and b) micro-perceptions that lie beneath the threshold of known perceptions yet create energetic vibrations. The volume shows distributed perception to be a key notion in addressing the emergence and peristence of plant, animal, human, and machine relations.

Weight: 466g
Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367743000