ABSTRACT
Thinking things and thinging thoughts is a playful semantic chiasm that tries to show the relationship in between action and reflection, matters and language, from mainly a phenomenological and postphenomenological perspective, i.e. reflecting ideas and thoughts of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger; Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek. At the same time, there is a link to the recent ideas of N. Katherine Hayles who, in her book Unthought (2017), questions the boundaries in between things and humans when it comes to thinking. How can things think and how can thoughts become things through the concept of thinging? Another question that the chapter raises through the construction of the chiasm is which comes first, thinking or thinging, or are there two processes: cognition and the autopoietic work of things in orchestral settings, of simultaneous character? The chapter discusses how things are fundamental for any kind of thinking, and how any sort of thing is a catalyzer for thinking and reflection. Furthermore, it is assumed that thinking and thinging in private and public/social spaces have an intention that transcends the mere processes of reflecting and doing, where intentionality is directed in streams that take interrelation and intercontextuality seriously.
