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Neuroscience with New Materialism

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This first chapter of this second section starts with an overview of some of the issues that I developed in the first volume. It then proceeds with a discussion of neurology—neurobiology, neuronormality, and neurodiversity, as these will be related to what is happening in the post-Anthropocene in education and the affects of media on education. This chapter spends its energy discussing brain plasticity as developed by Catherine Malabou, presenting a critique of her position. I shift then to a discussion concerning AI, especially speculative posthumanism. This includes discussions of Laruelle’s ‘transcendental computer’ and the shift that will continue to develop in that direction.

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jagodzinski, j. (2024). Neuroscience with New Materialism. In: Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene, Volume 2. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54783-6_9

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