The enactive elements of style
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences March 3, 2026 Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
The author examines Alva Noë's use of the concept of style to describe how people access the world and form their selves, drawing on his earlier work in Action in Perception. Style is presented as an expansive, flexible concept that can be understood in enactive terms—as communal processes of form-taking that develop, entwine, and differentiate historically. This relational view of style as socially constituted does not conflict with its common use to describe the cohesive activity of individuals, objects, or places, but rather clarifies it.