Unraveling
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age
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Narrateur(s):
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Mike Lenz
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Auteur(s):
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Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
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Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human.
Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on narratives of family and individual experiences with neurological disorders, paired with texts by neuroscientists and psychiatrists, to decenter the brain and expose the ableist biases in the dominant thinking about personhood.
Unraveling articulates a novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on such concepts as animation, modularity, and facilitation. It does so through close readings of memoirs by individuals who lost their hearing or developed trauma-induced aphasia, as well as family members of people diagnosed as autistic - texts that rethink modes of subjectivity through experiences with communication, caregiving, and the demands of everyday life.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Jaime
- 2023-06-10
Excellent ethnography!
Wolf-Meyer's examination of the neurological turn in biomedicine and psychology particularly in defining personhood. Should be of interest to those in medical/cultural anthropology, developmental and counselling psychology and medical ethics. Also useful for those caring for the elderly or others with dementia or acquired brain trauma, ASD, ADHD for perspective on care options and culturally relativist presentation of ways of seeing various perspectives.
Historical context is thorough with all the case studies presented. I found the text very deft, factual and sensitive with regard to the presentation of the in-depth case studies. The autoethnographic moments in the text position the author as someone with deep personal stakes in the issues he presents.
Kudos to the author for the clear and current presentation Gregory Bateson and cybernetic theory. The author provides useful terms for reflection on the place of technology in our social lives and conception of personhood.
The reading voice is slow, but the text is dense, so this is perhaps good.
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