Affective Technology, Part 2: Emotion recollected in tranquility
by William Benzon Here’s the previous article: Affective Technology, Part 1: Poems and Stories In his 1997 best-seller, How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker suggested that, however important art may be to humans, it is not part of our specifically biological nature: We enjoy strawberry cheesecake, but not because we evolved a taste for it.…