In collaboration with Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega from the Brainhood project, on this page we regularly publish rubrics exploring the diverse expressions of neuroculture. If you would like to write for this page, please submit a short proposal for contributions of up to 2000 words to info@neuroculture.org. Commentaries or reviews of visual material, fiction and non-fiction works as well as film, advertisements or public events are most welcome.

We also list a number of previously published texts related to neuroculture and brainhood or more in general on the importance of collaboration between science, art and the humanities

Past Rubrics:

December 2008, Kimberley Whitehead, The popular conception of the electroencephalogram within science fiction and fantasy drama

December 2008, Alain Ehrenberg, Brain, Mind, Society: The Threefold Cord

October 2008, Francisco Ortega, Going to the brain gym

September 2008, Silvia Casini, MRI as Grid in the Sculpture of Marc Didou

August 2008, Valeria Gennero, literary Neurofiction. On Richard Power's 'The Echo Maker'

Other online texts

Giovanni Frazzetto (2008) Neural networking in Manhattan

Alison Abbott (2008) Hidden treasures: the Cajal collection in Madrid

David Freedberg and Vittorio Gallese (2007) Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience

Richard Wingate and (2006) Imagining the brain cell: the neuron in visual culture

Fernando Vidal (2005) Le suject cerebral: une esquisse historique et conceptuelle

Helga Nowotny (2004) Wish fulfilment and its discontents. On the uneasy relationship between the life sciences and the humanities

Giovanni Frazzetto (2004) Different and yet alike

Eric Kandel (2003) A parallel between radical reductionism in science and in art

Alexandre Mauron (2003) Renovating the House of Being. Genomes, Souls and Selves.

Dorothy Nelkin and Suzanne Anker (2002) The influence of genetics on contemporary culture