Article ID: CBB001252271

The Neural Subject in Popular Culture and the End of Life (2011)

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Scholars in the humanities increasingly scrutinize the contemporary significance of cognitive neuroscience in reshaping the contours of the human subject. The essay considers a specific dimension of this new epistemic and ontological frontier---the neuroscience of consciousness as a threshold of life and death---to develop the argument that the biology of consciousness as a cultural problem is part and parcel of the end of life as a biopolitical problem. It turns to two sites of contemporary popular culture to unpack how a particular rationality of freedom intertwines with neural life in order to give form to, and contain, the concrete material, economic, and political problems faced by the end of life. It argues that contemporary reflections on the biology of consciousness must link the cultural problem of organizing a neural subject to specific economic, legal, and ethical problems of late-modern rationalities of government.

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Authors & Contributors
Morgan, David
Polger, Thomas W.
Howell, Christopher
Pecere, Paolo
Salvat, Andrei
Young, Allan
Concepts
Philosophy of mind
Neurosciences
Cognitive science
Philosophy of science
Psychology
Consciousness
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
United States
European Union
Vienna (Austria)
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