Abstract This article revisits Alva Noë’s claim that perception is a skilful activity enacted through sensorimotor engagement, asking what happens when the temporal conditions that scaffold such skill become unstable. Drawing on ethnographic material from Sámi reindeer herding and Inuit hunting and herding practices in Arctic environments, I argue that action and perception can slip out of...
This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively engage with reading materials, and (ii) to spark a dialogue with neighboring disciplines, such as multimodality studies and movement studies, which likewise pivot on how...