What is a Deep Ecology of the Brain?

Paletten Nr. 335-336 (Summer 2024)
Anders Dunker in conversation with Warren Neidich

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Guattari’s concept of the Body Without Organs, which had been so important for releasing the body from the regimentation of Fordist Labor and Taylorism as well from the restraints of the scientism of psychoanalysis, is no longer up to the task in the regime of cognitive capitalism, in which the acorporeal mind and brain are now the ”predominant” forms of labor. The Brain Without Organs as a conceptual construct was a creative act that instigated change and released the brain, as the Body Without Organs did for the body from the restrictive and despotic regimes of, on the one hand, the genetic code and, on the other, the ideological and despotic constructs, such as psychoanalysis and capitalism.” – Warren Neidich