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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dunagan, Jake F

Titel

Politics for the Neurocentric Age

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Advanced brain imaging, neuromodulation technologies, and new insights into cognition have opened up the mind to new political involvements. Modes of political power are expanding their reach inside the human brain. At the same time the mind is offloading more of its functions into the technological and social artifacts of our environment, introducing new forces of control into the cognitive ecology. These transformations are ushering in the neurocentric age. Life in the neurocentric age is going to be different. It will generate unexpected social and political relations, as well as unprecedented policy and ethical dilemmas. A politics of the neurocentric age will involve the emergence of a new power-knowledge, and the reconsolidation and deployment of old powers around new technological affordances. A politics for the neurocentric age must be built on a systemic understanding of these new technologies, dynamics of power, and new terrains of political contestation. Where are the spaces of action and the stakes involved when the brain becomes a central political object? What dynamics emerge where and when the mind encounters power? What governmentalities will define these new political terrains? This dissertation examines the rise of neuroscience as the dominant way of knowing our world and ourselves, and traces the shifts in the administration of emergent neuropowers within the domains of political subjectivity, surveillance, intellectual property law, and governance design.