“The edge of our thinking” (50). I hadn’t read this when I drafted my evocative objects piece, in which I say (in response to Turkle’s definition of evocative objects as “things we think with”): “The teacup is round but not perfectly – it has embossed on it interesting edges. When I think, I strive for those edges. When I write, I want the roundness – I want to be able to connect the beginning of the thought to the end, and recall how I got from one to the other.”
I think that the fact that there are no edges (or malleable ones) among the interconnected “bodies, language, and situations” that make up embodied knowing (52) is key. Gendlin’s breaking down of the feeling/thinking binary (ibid.) and his championship of the “murky zone” (54) fit right in here, as does his rejection of the hierarchizing (and precursor division) of body and mind. Everything is one.
