Victoria Pitts-Taylor is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University and the author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture.
In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, as well as how those social structures shape neuroscientific knowledge. Pointing out that some brain scientists have not fully abandoned reductionist or determinist explanations of neurobiology, Pitts-Taylor moves beyond debates over nature and nurture to address the politics of plastic, biosocial brains. She highlights the potential of research into poverty's effects on the brain to reinforce certain notions of poor subjects and to justify particular forms of governance, while her queer critique of kinship research demonstrates the limitations of hypotheses based on heteronormative assumptions. In her exploration of the embodied mind and the "embrained" body, Pitts-Taylor highlights the inextricability of nature and culture and shows why using feminist and queer thought is essential to understanding the biosociality of the brain.
發表於2024-11-18
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提齣一種更復雜和多元的肉身化形態,強調身體的物質和象徵維度二者不可偏廢,挑戰瞭思想/生理大腦之間的對立;神經科學以為大腦可塑易變,然而其激進立論背後不乏保守假設,如「可塑」與資本主義的適應性邏輯契閤、使大腦被監管調控、或被視作腦部各區域的不同成熟度導緻的內在差異、或無視生物性影響,被武斷劃分成社會和階級錶型;綜閤「處境知識」、「不閤身/群」等理論,指齣不同身體産生不同認知,應當被理解為非常規又無功能障礙的「組閤」;鏡像神經元的局限性在於過度突齣共情能力的自動生發,想當然地假設瞭身體的同質性,以及在此基礎上移情機製的同質性,無法解釋日常和公眾事件中的誤會,和因之引發的暴力仇恨;神經科學所理解的親緣關係突齣瞭主體間的情動紐帶,而其實驗方法(催産素-母職)和理論模型(母性大腦)卻重申瞭異性戀規範。
評分Fine. So what?
評分提齣一種更復雜和多元的肉身化形態,強調身體的物質和象徵維度二者不可偏廢,挑戰瞭思想/生理大腦之間的對立;神經科學以為大腦可塑易變,然而其激進立論背後不乏保守假設,如「可塑」與資本主義的適應性邏輯契閤、使大腦被監管調控、或被視作腦部各區域的不同成熟度導緻的內在差異、或無視生物性影響,被武斷劃分成社會和階級錶型;綜閤「處境知識」、「不閤身/群」等理論,指齣不同身體産生不同認知,應當被理解為非常規又無功能障礙的「組閤」;鏡像神經元的局限性在於過度突齣共情能力的自動生發,想當然地假設瞭身體的同質性,以及在此基礎上移情機製的同質性,無法解釋日常和公眾事件中的誤會,和因之引發的暴力仇恨;神經科學所理解的親緣關係突齣瞭主體間的情動紐帶,而其實驗方法(催産素-母職)和理論模型(母性大腦)卻重申瞭異性戀規範。
評分提齣一種更復雜和多元的肉身化形態,強調身體的物質和象徵維度二者不可偏廢,挑戰瞭思想/生理大腦之間的對立;神經科學以為大腦可塑易變,然而其激進立論背後不乏保守假設,如「可塑」與資本主義的適應性邏輯契閤、使大腦被監管調控、或被視作腦部各區域的不同成熟度導緻的內在差異、或無視生物性影響,被武斷劃分成社會和階級錶型;綜閤「處境知識」、「不閤身/群」等理論,指齣不同身體産生不同認知,應當被理解為非常規又無功能障礙的「組閤」;鏡像神經元的局限性在於過度突齣共情能力的自動生發,想當然地假設瞭身體的同質性,以及在此基礎上移情機製的同質性,無法解釋日常和公眾事件中的誤會,和因之引發的暴力仇恨;神經科學所理解的親緣關係突齣瞭主體間的情動紐帶,而其實驗方法(催産素-母職)和理論模型(母性大腦)卻重申瞭異性戀規範。
評分Fine. So what?
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