Applied Evolutionary Phenomenology
A civically-directed, spandrelist approach to an evolutionary psychology of experience, Applied Evolutionary Phenomenology (AEP) articulates an interstitial of applied anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and existential phenomenology, amidst a weave of non-violent communication and a weft of historical-libidinal materialism.
Unlike approaches that seek to describe modern cognitive structures as solutions to challenges presented in an environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, AEP asks how spandrels—structural side-effects of an adaptive architecture—unfold ecological clearings, opening thereof new trajectories of evolution.
Thus AEP encounters artifactuality—of culture, of consciousness—as emerging with successive scaffolding of spandrels, non-adaptive virtual spaces across which successive forces play, erecting new architectures of adaptation, and so surfeit spandrel strata.
Where such scaffold, an architecture of assemblage, stands at confluence of affect and percept, of social and political flow, human needs are spoken, adaptive and counter-adaptive strategies enacted. In attention these potentials, an activism rooted in our being as organisms, enmeshed bodies open to a world, is disclosed.
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