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UNINA9910457035903321 |
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Malabou Catherine |
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What should we do with our brain? [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand |
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New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
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0-8232-6060-7 |
1-282-69887-7 |
9786612698873 |
0-8232-2954-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (118 p.) |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy |
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Philosophy of mind |
Brain - Philosophy |
Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy |
Adaptability (Psychology) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Translated from the French. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-94). |
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""Contents""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticity�s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""��You Are Your Synapses��""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes"" |
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Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized ?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. |
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Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, ?plasticity? can be equated with ?flexibility??a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx?s well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge. |
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UNINA9910698208503321 |
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Stalcup George H |
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Office of Special Counsel needs to follow structured life cycle management practices for its case tracking system [[electronic resource]] |
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Washington, DC : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2007] |
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25 pages : digital, PDF file |
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Data protection - Government policy - United States |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 18, 2007). |
Author: George H. Stalcup. |
"February 16, 2007." |
Paper version available from: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548. |
"GAO-07-318R." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910811209703321 |
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Autore |
Lovink Geert |
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Titolo |
Sad by design : on platform nihilism / / Geert Lovink |
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London : , : Pluto Press, , [2019] |
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2019 |
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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. 'Sad by Design' offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised Internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives. Geert Lovink calls for us to embrace the engineered intimacy of social media, messenger apps and selfies, because boredom is the first stage of overcoming 'platform nihilism'. Then, after the haze, we can organise to disrupt the data extraction industries at their core. |
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