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Kerry Watson

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Surrealism, Chance and the Extended Mind

Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism September 1, 2020 Kerry Watson

This chapter discusses how the Surrealists engaged with techniques like automatic drawing, the exquisite corpse, collage, frottage and decalcomania, and how this might be interpreted in the context of theories of distributed cognition, enactivism, embodiment, and the extended mind. The Surrealists’ use of ‘objective chance’ was driven by a belief in the existence of an unconscious state of mind...