Neuropolitics

Thinking, Culture, Speed

By: William E. Connolly

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Paperback | 24 July 2002

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A surprising exploration of connections between culture, neuroscience, and our experience of time.

Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly--whose new book is itself an eloquent answer--the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that technique plays in thinking, ethics, and politics. By taking up recent research in neuroscience to explore the way brain activity is influenced by cultural conditions and stimuli such as film technique, Connolly is able to fashion a new perspective on our attempts to negotiate-and thrive-within a deeply pluralized society whose culture and economy continue to quicken.

In Neuropolitics Connolly draws upon recent brain/body research to explore the creative potential of thinking, the layered character of culture, the cultivation of ethical sensibilities, and the critical role of technique in all three. He then shows how a series of films-including Vertigo, Five Easy Pieces, and Citizen Kane-enhances our appreciation of technique and contests the linear image of time now prevalent in cultural theory.

Connolly deftly brings these themes together to support an ethos of deep pluralism within the democratic state and a politics of citizen activism across states. His book is an original and rigorous study that attends to the creative possibilities of thinking in identity, culture, and ethics.

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Preface
The Body/Brain/Culture Network	p. 1
The Color of Perception	p. 22
Nature, Affect, Thinking	p. 50
Techniques of Thought and Micropolitics	p. 80
Memory Traces, Mystical States, and Deep Pluralism	p. 114
Democracy and Time	p. 140
Eccentric Flows and Cosmopolitan Culture	p. 176
Notes	p. 203
Index	p. 217
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