The technology [of fMRI] has nourished the growth of various commercial and academic industries; it has dramatically contributed to “neurologize” research into the human (and the criteria by which it is evaluated) and has been occasionally misused for worthy purposes (as when it was wielded as evidence that mental illness is organic, decisively contributing to the adoption of the U.S. Mental Health Parity Act of 2008).
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.