Book part: Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia. Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain
Abstract
The brain in its plasticity and inherent “sociality” can
be proclaimed and projected as a revolutionary organ.
Far from the old reactions which opposed the authenticity
of political theory and praxis to the dangerous
naturalism of “cognitive science” (with images of men
in white coats, the RAND Corporation or military LSD
experiments), recent decades have shown us some of
the potentiality of the social brain (Vygotsky, Negri,
and Virno). Is the brain somehow inherently a utopian
topos? If in some earlier papers I sought to defend
naturalism against these reactions, here I consider
a new challenge: the recently emerged disciplines of
neuronormativity, which seek in their own way to overcome
the nature-normativity divide. This is the task of
a materialist brain theory today.
Preferred Citation
BibTex
Wolfe, Charles T.: Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia. Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain. In: Pasquinelli, Matteo: Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas. Lüneburg: meson press 2015, S. 173-184. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1217.
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title = {Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia. Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain},
year = 2015,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1217},
editor = {Pasquinelli, Matteo},
address = {Lüneburg},
booktitle = {Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas},
pages = {173--184},
publisher = {meson press},
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author = {Wolfe, Charles T.},
title = {Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia. Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain},
year = 2015,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1217},
editor = {Pasquinelli, Matteo},
address = {Lüneburg},
booktitle = {Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas},
pages = {173--184},
publisher = {meson press},
isbn = {978-3-95796-066-5},
}
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