ABSTRACT
Emotions are then intimately and inescapably caught up in the current re-writing of the earth, the production of new, transformed, geographies, and New World Orders, that affect us all, albeit in very different ways. And yet the question of how we might feel as well as think about these transformations is seldom addressed and this is why the world needs emotional geographies and why geography needs to take emotions seriously. While Descartes' philosophy certainly plays a key role in the development of a modernist world-view that radically separates reason from emotion, the tendency to lay the entire blame for this binary division at his doorstep massively oversimplifies matters. Although Descartes' substance dualism is largely jettisoned in later philosophical and scientific developments, the basic structure of his thought remains. Frances Dyson discusses research into Human Computer Interaction (HCI), criticising the enchanting data' of affective computing and the potential for empathetic relationships between humans and embodied, emotionally intelligent' machines.
