Distributed Perception

<p>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. </p><p>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. It’s a form of multi-species perception that emphasises emergent directionality and protean mnemonics. </p><p>This transdisciplinary volume brings together key theorists and practitioners from media theory Native science bio-media and sound art philosophy art his- tory 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. </p>