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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Lardas ModernPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226799629ISBN 10: 022679962 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 29 September 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPrologue: Already Gone Introduction Saturation Approaching the Neuromatic (with a Short Engineering Aside) Blurred Lines Cybernetics and the Question of Religion Cybernetic Theses of Secularization Poetics Synaptic Gap: Measuring Religion I. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion False Positives The Cognitive Science of Religion The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device Distinguishing Marks on a Screen Breaking the Spell Northampton Jonathan Edwards, Hyperactive Agency Detector Detecting the Life of the Brain Agents like Us Cheap Tricks Synaptic Gap: The Information of History II. Neither Matter nor Spirit: Toward a Genealogy of Information Hard Problems Neuromatic Piety: An Overview Ether and the Permeation of the Interspaces Emanuel Swedenborg, Neuroscientist Ghosts of Swedenborg Mental Slavery and the Invention of Spirituality The Diakka and Their Earthly Victims The Mediomaniacal Origins of American Neurology Prehistories of Electroencephalography Brain Waves and Tremulating Information Biofeedback and the Experience of Correspondence The Ontology of Information Concluding Thoughts on Perceptronium Synaptic Gap: Too Much Too Soon III. Imagining the Neuromatic Crash and Burn Opening Scene from a Cybernetic Demimonde Elective Affinities The Mechanics of Mediumship Images of an Oracle Thought Dictated in the Absence of All Control Cut-Ups From Voodoo Death to Virology Engrams and Auditing Past Lives of the Neuromatic Brain Exteriorization Break Through in Grey Room Synaptic Gap: White Machinery IV. Histories of Electric Shock Therapy circa 1978 Of Systems, Sex, and Secular Conversion Moral Treatment and Heads That Differ in Shape Gendered Electricity in the Neuromatic Groove The Operationalization of Napa State Insane Asylum Patients' Rights The Shaving of Leonard Frank's Beard Electric Love Therapy The Business of Marriage The Union of All Contradictory Ideas I Watch TV, I Watch TV Live from Napa State Synaptic Gap: Belief Molecules Conclusion: The Elementary Forms of Neuromatic Life Totemic Systems Big Science Artificial Intelligence IndexReviewsThis book is magisterial in scope-masterfully researched, carefully considered, subtly theorized, and energetically executed. Wrangling published, archival, and media sources into a deliberately nonlinear genealogy, Neuromatic will be essential for scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and science studies. * Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University * Neuromatic is equal parts brilliant critical analysis and affectionate polemic. I strongly recommend it to my colleagues in the cognitive sciences who should know about the metaphysical skeletons in our closets. I recommend it to everyone else because reading it is so much fun. * Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati * Neuromatic, though masquerading as both a poke at the smugness of supposedly secular science and a plea against reductionism, is up to something more interesting: anamnesis. It wants us to stop forgetting everything that went into making the brain the font of all order-pills, electro-shock therapy, EEGs, TV screens, cognitive anthropology and other findings from the twilight zone of cybernetics. With flashes of insight going off in an antic zigzag logic, Neuromatic fires on as many synapses as the enchanted loom of the brain itself. Modern, a library cormorant of the first order, provides a history of oddballs and kooks, including some heroes of postwar science, and I ended up not being able to tell them apart. I found my brain happily scrambled after reading this book. Neuromatic gleefully demonstrates how the effort to create binaries of pure-dirty, science-kookiness, truth-fabrication, sobriety-credulity, secular-religious fails again and again. An ultimately sane plea to linger in the midworld. * John Durham Peters, Yale University * Modern balances the academic and the bizarre with a colorful cast of characters from history, from religious scholars to scientists to psychics. There's something for anyone with a curious mind. * LNP * This book is magisterial in scope-masterfully researched, carefully considered, subtly theorized, and energetically executed. Wrangling published, archival, and media sources into a deliberately nonlinear genealogy, Neuromatic will be essential for scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and science studies. * Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University * Neuromatic is equal parts brilliant critical analysis and affectionate polemic. I strongly recommend it to my colleagues in the cognitive sciences who should know about the metaphysical skeletons in our closets. I recommend it to everyone else because reading it is so much fun. * Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati * Neuromatic, though masquerading as both a poke at the smugness of supposedly secular science and a plea against reductionism, is up to something more interesting: anamnesis. It wants us to stop forgetting everything that went into making the brain the font of all order-pills, electro-shock therapy, EEGs, TV screens, cognitive anthropology and other findings from the twilight zone of cybernetics. With flashes of insight going off in an antic zigzag logic, Neuromatic fires on as many synapses as the enchanted loom of the brain itself. Modern, a library cormorant of the first order, provides a history of oddballs and kooks, including some heroes of postwar science, and I ended up not being able to tell them apart. I found my brain happily scrambled after reading this book. Neuromatic gleefully demonstrates how the effort to create binaries of pure-dirty, science-kookiness, truth-fabrication, sobriety-credulity, secular-religious fails again and again. An ultimately sane plea to linger in the midworld. * John Durham Peters, Yale University * Author InformationJohn Lardas Modern is professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs and Secularism in Antebellum America, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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