Neurotechnologies of the Self
Jonna Brenninkmeijer
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Description for Neurotechnologies of the Self
Hardback. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; JHB; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
169
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137533852
SKU
V9781137533852
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99-15
About Jonna Brenninkmeijer
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.
Reviews for Neurotechnologies of the Self
“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)