For the kind attendees and those watching the archived video at later date, some resources until Michael posts his excellent synopsis:
Bibliography on Tools for Thought (a shared Zotero repository of some of my collection), which may supplement some of the list from December’s meetup.
- Tools For Though Zotero collection
- Group link to Tools for Thought collection - if you’d like to contribute to the group, note that you saw it through here if requesting access to add to it (requires Zotero account)
Lynne Kelly - an advanced mnemonist and anthropologist who has studied and written extensively about mnemonic traditions and methods.
- Primer video on her work
- Kelly, Lynne. Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107444973.
- ———. Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory Using the Most Powerful Methods from around the World. Pegasus Books, 2019.
My digital notes using Hypothesis: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich
with related notes on:
- Combinatorial creativity
- Guidonian hand
- Where is knowledge held? Or in the Tinderbox or in the Head?
Some texts which were mentioned during the session:
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Clark, Andy, and David J. Chalmers. “The Extended Mind.” Analysis 58, no. 1 (1998): 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/58.1.7.
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Paul, Annie Murphy. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Extended-Mind/9780544947580.
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Allen, Roland. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. United Kingdom: Profile Books, 2023. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-rolad-allen/6331084.
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Duncan, Dennis. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. 1st ed. London: Allen Lane, 2021. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324002543.
I’ll also mention for those who may be interested in intellectual history that historian Dan Allosso is about to start a few new books in his ongoing book club including Duncan’s Index (above) and Alex Wright’s Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (2014) this coming Saturday morning.