ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how material and conceptual availability create ignorance and common knowledge as well as stability and transformation that is tied to our embodied habits as individuals and groups engaged in collective practices with materials. Materials not only aid concept formation, but they also shape mindful bodies just as much as ultra-sociality. Mindful bodies are filled with the potentials of telling stories of things through their preceding learning. Mindful bodies may appear as having fixed boundaries from a humanist perspective. Instead of being inseparable from the mindful bodies using them as tools in distributed collectives, they come into existing practices as unknown strangers. Considering humans as ultra-social learners with mindful bodies is a stepping stone to understanding what posthumanist learning may become. The mindful, motivated bodies become the locus of diversity and alignment through material anchors of meaning. Some people know about “the cosmic energy” in their mindful bodies, others know about wires and how to make robots.
