Movies tend to imply that personal identity requires a repertoire of longterm eidetic or “photographic” episodic memories of real autobiographical events stored in discrete brain locations. For instance, the protagonist of Strange Days (1995) deals in illegal recordings made directly from the cerebral cortex, allowing future viewers to live others’ experiences as if they were their own.
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.