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Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia: Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain

Chapter of: Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas(pp. 173–184)

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TitleBrain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia
SubtitleNeuronormativity Meets the Social Brain
ContributorCharles T. Wolfe(author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightCharles T. Wolfe
Publishermeson press
Published on2015-07-14
Long abstractThe 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.
Page rangepp. 173–184
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Charles T. Wolfe

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Researcher at Ghent University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7956-9085

Charles T. Wolfe is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, working primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. His edited volumes include Monsters and Philosophy (2005), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge (2010, with O. Gal), Vitalism and the scientific image in post-Enlightenment life-science (2013, with S. Normandin) and Brain Theory (2014); he has papers in journals including Multitudes, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology and others.