Neurobiopolitics

This book discusses the current state of affairs of Cognitive Capitalism. It is the first book in a series of three. Edited by Warren Neidich and Arne De boever.  Contributions  include Jonathan Beller, Franco Berardi, Jodi Dean, Patricia Pisters, Jason Smith, Tiziana Terranova and Bruce Wexler. The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalsim Part 2 is now available through Archive Books. http://www.archivebooks.org/ Edited by Warren Neidich Texts by Ina Blom, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Sanford Kwinter, Maurizio Lazzarato, Karl Lydén, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich,
Matteo Pasquinelli, Alexei Penzin, Patricia Reed, John Roberts, Liss C. Werner, Charles T. Wolfe

The first part of the book delineates the recent emergence
of characteristic psychopathologies of cognitive capitalism,
which have resulted from the unique concatenation of socialpolitical-
psychological-economic relations that have produced
distinct stresses and forms of derangement upon the factory
of the brain. This leads to the second stream, referred to as
“the cognitive turn” in cognitive capitalism. For example, as
a result of the necessity for an efficient brain-mind to labor
in the advanced and constantly accelerating conditions of
the knowledge economy highly sophisticated and nuanced
forms of attention have become compulsory well beyond what
was considered essential in the older regimes of the modern.
As such new dispositifs of normalization and governmentalization
have arisen to, on the one hand, diffuse the attention
necessary for multi-tasking, and on the other, to enhance the
production of a hyper-attention. It is upon these and other
similar conditions that this book concentrates. It calls for the
identification of the causative factors of these psychopathologies
as well as attempting to invent the counter conditions with
which to thwart their emergence. Contributors include Ina Blom, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Sanford Kwinter, Maurizio Lazzarato, Karl Lyden, Yann Moulier Boutang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Alexie Penzin, Patricia Reed, John Roberts, Liss C. Werner, Charles T. Wolfe