Refereed Articles

Whereas recent commentators have suggested that consumer demand, typecasting and marketing lead performers to maintain continuities across films, I argue that cinema has historically made it difficult to subtract performers from roles, leading to relatively constant comportment, and that casting, marketing and audience preference are not only causes but also effects of this. I do […]

Moving images, whether in film, television or videogames, dominate industrialized regions. They are accordingly primary modes through which many encounter the world, and in this sense become virtual realities. They can also be virtual in the sense of being artificial and simulated. The movie Pleasantville (1998) is a case in point. The movie does not

From embodied pragmatic and phenomenological standpoints, the body is a system that falls into synchrony by coordinating around worldly contours. This engenders sensorimotor organization that constitutes perception, a view also defended by enactivists. I examine how similar coordinations occur in group contexts. I begin with a Deweyan account of perception. I then consider group action,

Struggling somewhat with writing in my youth, I am grateful for computers and word processors. As someone who now writes with relative ease and publishes a fair bit,

This paper focuses on prospects for Western style “democracy” in the Middle East, pursuing three interrelated points. First, I argue that some “democratic” experiments—for example, Egypt under Mohammed Morsi—are not in keeping with etymological and historical meanings of democracy; second, that it may be totalitarian and also colonialistic and thus possibly contrary to democratic ideals

This article examines how Modern theories of mind remain even in some materialistic and hence ontologically anti-dualistic views; and shows how Dewey, anticipating Merleau-Ponty and 4E cognitive scientists, repudiates these theories. Throughout I place Dewey’s thought in the context of scientific inquiry, both recent and historical and including the cognitive as well as traditional sciences;

In this article, I contemplate the Water Festival in Mandalay, a city in Myanmar, focusing on the…