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John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.
In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.
What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.
In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.
What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.
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Index
Abelson, Robert P., 370n18
abjection, 18. See also submission
abnormality, 79–81, 96n63, 100n75, 114n111, 190, 201, 210, 330n114, 370. See also normalcy
abstract expressionism, 101n77
abstraction, 12, 18, 34–35, 42, 52–53, 93, 101n77, 108n93, 133, 142, 150, 202, 207, 209, 257, 271, 276–78, 283, 314, 327n105, 360. See also masculinist reason
Adams, Evangeline, 247
Adderall, 25
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), 86–87, 92, 114n111, 198n150
Adler, Alfred, 230
Adorno, Theodor, 67n131, 72
Adrian, Edgar, 134, 188–91. See also binary logic
Advanced Research Project Agency of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 366
affect: bliss, 94n56, 297; claustrophobia, 18n38; confidence, 41, 70–73, 332–33, 343; conjugal, 180n106; cyborg becoming, 9, 122, 373–74, 398n54; docility, 8; enthusiasm, 94, 105–11; flow of, 175, 268, 308; information processing, 18, 135, 206–7, 240, 276–77; of language, 254n90, 270; patriotic, 307; relationality, 18n38; revulsion, 177; shame, 65, 71, 79, 328, 347; technoscientific, 383–86; terror, 17, 395n51; transient emotions in the MRI, 17n36; unknowability, 36–37. See also enchantment; fear; paranoia; wonder
Africa, 58n105, 232, 247
agency: of the brain, 112, 118–23; ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Prologue: Already Gone
- Introduction
- SYNAPTIC GAP: MEASURING RELIGION
- SYNAPTIC GAP: THE INFORMATION OF HISTORY
- SYNAPTIC GAP: TOO MUCH TOO SOON
- SYNAPTIC GAP: WHITE MACHINERY
- SYNAPTIC GAP: BELIEF MOLECULES
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Footnotes