Bernadette M Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 762477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette M Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette M |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending
In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently elided field of signification today referred to as “spiritual,” a signature which links attention to theori…
In the trading zone: The eco and the techno at the limits of ‘the human’ and compulsory schooling
This paper examines what is at stake in the trading zone, where Eco and Techno movements meet, especially in regard to the attributes generally posited as unique to “the human” and upon which compulsory schooling has been historically founded. It offers a thought experiment and investigation into how the simultaneity of Eco and Techno movements highlight what is at stake in schooling’s reliance on attributes such as consciousness and intelligence…
Inside Out: Head‐Based Ontologies, Vision, and Temporality in the First Neuroturn
Since the early 1800s, mainstream Western discourses that entwined racializing and ableizing discourses have involved, among other things, particular notions of temporality and ways of privileging scopic regimes that presume surface‐depth relations mediated by a theory of time and materiality. In this essay, Bernadette Baker analyzes the link between the production of visual surface‐depth relations, the theorization of time, and the conception of…
The anatomy of our discontent: From Braining the Mind to Mindfulness for Teachers
This paper offers an overview of contemporary inscriptions of mindfulness, their conditions of possibility, and examples of the braining of mind on which contemporary neuro-meets-contemplative turns are dependent. We examine key nineteenth-century events integral to the formation of Biologies Old, in which historic debates over ‘the death of God’ in Western worldviews forge a space of finitude dedicated to fleshy materiality and the relocation of…
New biological rationalities in education
William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse
In the past few decades, the humanities and social sciences have developed new methods of reorienting their conceptual frameworks in a 'world without frontiers'. In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of Harvard philosopher and psychologist William J…
New biological rationalities in education
The anatomy of our discontent: From Braining the Mind to Mindfulness for Teachers
This paper offers an overview of contemporary inscriptions of mindfulness, their conditions of possibility, and examples of the braining of mind on which contemporary neuro-meets-contemplative turns are dependent. We examine key nineteenth-century events integral to the formation of Biologies Old, in which historic debates over ‘the death of God’ in Western worldviews forge a space of finitude dedicated to fleshy materiality and the relocation of…
William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse
In the past few decades, the humanities and social sciences have developed new methods of reorienting their conceptual frameworks in a 'world without frontiers'. In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of Harvard philosopher and psychologist William J…
The anatomy of our discontent: From Braining the Mind to Mindfulness for Teachers
This paper offers an overview of contemporary inscriptions of mindfulness, their conditions of possibility, and examples of the braining of mind on which contemporary neuro-meets-contemplative turns are dependent. We examine key nineteenth-century events integral to the formation of Biologies Old, in which historic debates over ‘the death of God’ in Western worldviews forge a space of finitude dedicated to fleshy materiality and the relocation of…
New biological rationalities in education
Inside Out: Head‐Based Ontologies, Vision, and Temporality in the First Neuroturn
Since the early 1800s, mainstream Western discourses that entwined racializing and ableizing discourses have involved, among other things, particular notions of temporality and ways of privileging scopic regimes that presume surface‐depth relations mediated by a theory of time and materiality. In this essay, Bernadette Baker analyzes the link between the production of visual surface‐depth relations, the theorization of time, and the conception of…
In the trading zone: The eco and the techno at the limits of ‘the human’ and compulsory schooling
This paper examines what is at stake in the trading zone, where Eco and Techno movements meet, especially in regard to the attributes generally posited as unique to “the human” and upon which compulsory schooling has been historically founded. It offers a thought experiment and investigation into how the simultaneity of Eco and Techno movements highlight what is at stake in schooling’s reliance on attributes such as consciousness and intelligence…
Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending
In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently elided field of signification today referred to as “spiritual,” a signature which links attention to theori…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Anatomy (1 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Construct (python library) (1 works)