Modes of Human Becoming

Abstract

How do humans become? My basic thesis is simple: Humans become through their creative engagement with the material world.

We are plastic creatures inextricably intertwined with the plasticity of forms that we make. Humans construct signs, draw lines and leave memory traces. Importantly, they maintain a transactional relationship with other beings (human and non-human) that surrounds them. This applies to the modern forager of digital information as it applies to the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer and tool-maker. There is nothing in our genes, as there is nothing in our cultures that can explain that. Instead, we need to look at the lived space ‘in-between’, that is, where brain, body and culture conflate.

In my talk I will try to explore the major implications of this entanglement of mind and matter, for the traditional ways we understand the process of creativity and the role that it plays in human becoming.

Chi è Lambros Malafouris

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