More than “Information in the Head” : Culture, Cultural Evolution, and Concepts in Dynamic Assemblages | Current Anthropology Humans engage the world, not just through organic evolutionary processes but also through innovation, technology, communication, social organization, environmental exploitation and alteration, and dev...

New Article: “More than “Information in the Head” Culture, Cultural Evolution, and Concepts in Dynamic Assemblage” w/ @gregdowney.bsky.social and Alex Gillett--plus input from a number of commentators-- finally out in Current Anthropology www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/7

Human spatial memory has always been fragmented. Our recent use of GPS devices, and the impacts they are having on how we find our way around and feel at home, are best understood as reconfigurations of wayfinding ecologies: these vary based on skills, practices, and features of the environment

Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again - Review of Philosophy and Psychology Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is...

New paper out with McArthur Mingon and John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social

"Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again" link.springer.com/article/10.1.... We look at how GPS devices reconfigure our wayfinding ecologies and introduce idea of the 'archipelago effect'