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(2016) The metamorphoses of the brain, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Upon waking one morning in the twenty-first century we found ourselves transformed into our brain. Discussing this along the lines of a classic Ovidian metamorphosis, this introductory chapter poses some challenging questions—e.g. how the transformation took place, what produced it exactly and for what ends—and relates this to the even more problematic and Kafkaesque ordeal of remembering what exactly we were before. To understand this, I argue, we must probe deeper into the results of the transformation: what are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? Henceforth, this book provides a cartography of the manifold forms that brain-creatures take. The central argument is that if one wishes to understand neurologisation then one must turn to its antecedent of psychologisation.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50557-6_1
Full citation:
De Vos, J. (2016). Introduction: the metamorphoses of the brain, in The metamorphoses of the brain, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12.
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