Reading Des Fitzgerald’s Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience brought me more fully into contact with my own range of scholarly affect. I read it for the first time on an airplane, and was dimly curious about what the passenger in the seat next to me might be making of my sporadic chortles and chuckle-snorts and …
Last September, a group of scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for “Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Workshop”. The event was organized by Clarice Rios, a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Elizabeth Fein, a professor of psychology at Duquesne University, and funded by the …
Call for Papers: Psyche and Brain in the 21st Century
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December 2014
The past several “Decades of the Brain” have witnessed a critical shift in human ontology: from psyche to brain. In influential psychoanalytic theories of the 20th century, the origin of human motivation, belief and behavior was thought to be the psyche: a deep …
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