ABSTRACT

In this article, we explore the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) as a living, distributed bio-geography—that is, as the diversity of ways in which the lab exists today in and through research-practice work and experiences across multiple locations and generations of scholars. Taking a genetic perspective, we ground our discussion in two moments in the history of LCHC, embodied in two international meetings that took place in San Diego, the institutional home of LCHC —one in 2003 and the other, part of Re-generating CHAT project, in 2019. Taking as our point of departure the empty room depicted in Section 6 of LCHC’s Polyphonic Autobiography, “The Future,” we examine these two meetings as two moments where that metaphorical empty room is enlivened and populated. In our discussion, we identify LCHC’s progressive and critical orientation toward social justice through scholarly praxis, and discuss how this orientation evolves throughout changing circumstances and configurations. Most characteristic of LCHC’s particular way of life, we discuss a degree of dis/coordination in its organization, which creates imaginative opportunities—open gaps—between the diverse voices, ideas, and identities in its collaborative research-practice activities.

摘要

在本文中，我们将比较人类认知实验室（LCHC）视为一种活泼的分布式生物地理学，也就是说，作为当今实验室存在的多种方式以及在不同地点的研究实践工作和经验，和几代学者。从遗传学的角度出发，我们在LCHC历史的两个时刻进行了讨论，这体现在LCHC的机构所在地圣地亚哥举行的两次国际会议上，一次是2003年，另一次是再生CHAT项目的一部分，于2019年。以LCHC复音自传第6节“未来”中描述的空房间作为出发点，我们将这两次会议视作使隐喻性空房间充满活力和充满的两个时刻。在我们的讨论中 我们通过学术实践确定LCHC对社会正义的渐进和批判性取向，并讨论这种取向如何在变化的环境和配置中演变。LCHC特定生活方式的最大特征是，我们讨论了其组织中的某种程度的失调/协调，这在其协作研究实践活动中的各种声音，想法和身份之间创造了想象中的机会，即开放的鸿沟。