For this week’s readings, we will consider some productive comparisons of the approaches covered in the course and discussions between their founders and defenders.

Everyone Read

• Edwin Hutchins, “Cognitive Ecology” (DCog, ecological psychology, enactivism, and CHAT)
• Re-read Shaffer & Clinton, “Toolforthoughts: Reexamining Thinking in the Digital Age”” (CHAT, DCog, ANT, and mediated action)

Discussion Groups

Groups will be assigned in class. Each group will be responsible for informing the class about what is interesting

1. Latour Meets Activity Theory (ANT vs CHAT):
   • Read: Latour, “On Interobjectivity”
   • Read: Engeström, “Interobjectivity, Ideality, and Dialectics”
   • Skim: Other responses to Latour
   • Latour, “Pursuing the Discussion of Interobjectivity With a Few Friends” (focus on responses to Engeström)
2. Book Symposium on Hutchins’ Cognition in the Wild  in Mind, Culture, & Activity (DCog vs ANT (& more))
   • Reviews of CitW (read them all, focus on Latour)
   • Hutchins, Response to Reviewers
3. Comparisons – Situated Action, DCog, CHAT, and ANT
   • Bonnie A. Nardi, “Studying Context: A Comparison of Activity Theory, Situated Action Models, and Distributed Cognition” (with special relevance to HCI)
   • Reijo Miettinen, “The riddle of things: Activity theory and actor‐network theory as approaches to studying innovations”
4. Hutchins on Clark’s Supersizing the Mind, symposium from Philosophical Studies (DCog vs. Extended Mind)
   • Read: Clark, “Précis of Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action, and cognitive extension“
   • Read: Hutchins, “Enculturating the Supersized Mind”
   • Skim: Rupert, “Cognitive systems and the supersized mind”
   • Clark, “Finding the Mind” (focus on responses to Hutchins)