Affect, Cognition and the Neurosciences

Tony D Sampson

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2346

Affect, Cognition and the Neurosciences

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Tony D Sampson University of East London

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Like many academic disciplines in the twenty first century the humanities have been deeply affected by developments in the brain sciences. Conceptually this has meant that some of the major preoccupations of the previous century, like those adhering to a Cartesian division between mind and body or the psychoanalytical conscious/unconscious duality, have been supplanted by a new kind of neurological relation; that is to say, the relation established between a diminished mental faculty and the imperceptible governing power of the nonconscious. What is presented here is focused on a theoretically contested notion of the neurological nonconscious that has produced two differently orientated strands in the posthumanities. The discussion focuses on attempts to assimilate a contested understanding of the nonconscious in a remodelled cognitive theoretical framework, on one hand, and a new materialist rendering of affect theory, on the other.

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Affect, Nonconscious, Cognition, Assemblage

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Biografia de l'autor/a

Tony D Sampson, University of East London

Dr. Tony D. Sampson is reader in digital cultures and communication at the University of East London. His publications include The Spam Book, coedited with Jussi Parikka (Hampton Press, 2009), Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and Affect and Social Media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). Tony is a co-founder of Club Critical Theory in Southend, Essex, Director of the EmotionUX Lab at UEL and organizer of the Affect and Social Media conferences.

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