Note how these testimonies slide without warning from “my brain” to “I”: I love the way my brain works / I like the way I think; those people speak to me in ways my brain doesn’t understand. Beyond metaphorically personifying the brain, such language conflates persons and brains.
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.