Book ID: CBB963271466

Neurotechnologies of the Self: Mind, Brain and Subjectivity (2016)

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Brenninkmeijer, Jonna (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 199
Language: English

Taking care of oneself is increasingly interpreted as taking care of one’s brain. Apart from pills, books, food, and games for a better brain, people can also use neurotechnologies for self-improvement. This book explores how the use of brain devices to understand or improve the self changes people’s subjectivity.This book describes how the effects of several brain devices were and are demonstrated; how brains and selves interact in the work of early brainwave scientists and contemporary practitioners; how users of neurofeedback (brainwave training) constitute a new mode of self that is extended with a brain and various other (physiological, psychological, material, and sometimes spiritual) entities, and; how clients, practitioners and other actors (computers, brain maps, brainwaves) perform a dance of agency during the neurofeedback process. Through these topics, Jonna Brenninkmeijer provides a historical, ethnographical, and theoretical exploration of the mode of being that is constituted when people use a brain device to improve themselves.

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Authors & Contributors
O’Connor, Cliodhna
Dale, Karen
Joffe, Helene
Keiser, Jess
Wright, Jessica
Broer, Tineke
Concepts
Brain
Neurosciences
Mind and body
Subjectivity
Philosophy of mind
Economics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
England
Scotland
United States
Great Britain
Institutions
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
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