Blind Mans Cane

A theory of material engagement by lambros malafouris is a maddening but also fascinating book that is seriously helping me to think through some of the issues that concern me.
Blind mans cane. Malafouris wants to argue that the human mind is embodied extended enacted and distributed extensive rather than intensive in its fundamental character. When stairs come the cane falls to the second step so the blind person knows. He s joined by jackie from newsynews to help demonstrate how someone might navigate a busy hallway with many obstacles. What would you do.
In 1921 james biggs a photographer from bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible. How things shape the mind. Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries but it was not until after world war i that the white cane was introduced. Blind people use a white cane to navigate.
Tommy explains how a blind person uses a white guide cane. Blind man robbed when asking for help with wallet what would you do. A blind cane while warning the user of obstacles such as stairs curbs and uneven terrain also alerts others in the vicinity that the cane user has difficulty seeing. Clumsy blind man keeps hitting people passing by with his cane as he tries to point things out to the dismay of good samaritans who don t know what to do.
He can t use the standard white red cane for the blind because he needs the heavy duty cane and it s always a struggle when he goes out because people don t know he is blind and don t realize he can t see them or what is in front of him. Blind man vs the police prank duration. Wwyd duration. This cane gives other people a head s up that he is sight impaired and also gives him the stability to walk that he needs.
He even smacks one woman on the butt. He loves this and my mother in.