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Chapter 5 focuses on Gendlin’s notions of progression and crossing in relation to verbal and visual concepts. Exploring progression as a coming into being of new representational forms, Banfield develops recent geographical efforts to rethink abstraction as productive rather than reductive through Gendlin’s work. Considering progression as pre-reflective connectivity between established concepts, she addresses the potential to think more-than-logically about verbal concepts through a discussion of disciplinary efforts to eradicate terms with scalar associations, and about visual concepts in relation to artworks. Banfield proposes that with the crossing of multiple concepts operating in metaphorical fashion, the more-than-logical connectivity between and beyond the concepts themselves can be opened up to enable the explication (articulation) of new conceptual terms from that connectivity.

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Banfield, J. (2016). Progressions. In: Geography Meets Gendlin. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60440-8_5

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