Neurocultures

Contents: Fernando Vidal/Francisco Ortega: Approaching the Neurocultural Spectrum: An Introduction - Francisco Ortega: Toward a Genealogy of Neuroascesis - John Tresch: Experimental Ethics and the Science of the Meditating Brain - Gesa Lindemann: Neuronal Expressivity: On the Road to a New Naturalness - Eric Racine/Zoë Costa-von Aesch: Neuroscience's Impact on our Self-Identity: Perspectives from Ethics and Public Understanding - Maurizio Meloni: The Cerebral Subject at the Junction of Naturalism and Antinaturalism - Alain Ehrenberg: The «Social» Brain: An Epistemological Chimera and a Sociological Truth - Nicolas Langlitz: Political Neurotheology: Emergence and Revival of a Psychedelic Alternative to Cosmetic Psychopharmacology - Jurandir Freire Costa: Psychoanalysis and the Cerebral Subject - Simon Cohn: Visualizing Disgust: Subtractions and Assimilations in the Production of Neuroscientific Knowledge - Margaret Lock: Seduced by Plaques and Tangles: Alzheimer's Disease and the Cerebral Subject - Scott Vrecko: On the Political Economy of the «Gambling Brain» - Cathy Gere: «Nature's Experiment:» Epilepsy, Localization of Brain Function and the Emergence of the Cerebral Subject - Benilton Bezerra: Looking for Experience in the Brain: Psychoanalysis and the Project of Naturalizing Mind - Susan Aldworth: The Physical Brain and the Sense of Self: An Artists's Exploration - Robert Zwijnenberg: Brains, Art, and the Humanities - Valeria Gennero: Larger Than Our Biologies: Identity and Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction - Fernando Vidal: Fiction Film and the Cerebral Subject.

Francisco Ortega is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro.
Fernando Vidal is Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.