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Neurotechnologies of the Self

Mind, Brain and Subjectivity

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  • © 2016

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  1. Jonna Brenninkmeijer

    1. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 1-10

  3. Brain Devices and the Marvel

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 11-44

  4. Glancing Behind the Scenes

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 45-76

  5. Taking Care of One’s Brain

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 77-107

  6. Intermezzo: From Self to Others to Agents

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 109-116

  7. Neurofeedback as a Dance of Agency

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 117-139

  8. Reflection and Conclusion

    • Jonna Brenninkmeijer
    Pages 141-155

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 157-169
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About this book

Taking care of oneself is increasingly interpreted as taking care of one’s brain. Apart from pills, books, food, and games for a better brain, people can also use neurotechnologies for self-improvement. This book explores how the use of brain devices to understand or improve the self changes people’s subjectivity.


This book describes how the effects of several brain devices were and are demonstrated; how brains and selves interact in the work of early brainwave scientists and contemporary practitioners; how users of neurofeedback (brainwave training) constitute a new mode of self that is extended with a brain and various other (physiological, psychological, material, and sometimes spiritual) entities, and; how clients, practitioners and other actors (computers, brain maps, brainwaves) perform a dance of agency during the neurofeedback process. Through these topics, Jonna Brenninkmeijer provides a historical, ethnographical, and theoretical exploration ofthe mode of being that is constituted when people use a brain device to improve themselves.

Reviews

“Brenninkmeijer (Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands) explores electronic brain therapies with the primary focus on neurofeedback. This book is as much about philosophy as it is a review of neurotechnologies. … This book is … for those delving into the philosophy of caring for one’s brain.” (J. Swiatek, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Jonna Brenninkmeijer

About the author

Jonna Brenninkmeijer works at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She previously conducted her doctoral research at the University of Groningen, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, and at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neurotechnologies of the Self

  • Book Subtitle: Mind, Brain and Subjectivity

  • Authors: Jonna Brenninkmeijer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53386-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53385-2Published: 15 June 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53386-9Published: 31 May 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 169

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of the Body, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Neurobiology

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