Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age - Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 17, 2020 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on narratives of family and individual experiences with neurological disorders, paired with texts by neuroscientists and psychiatrists, to decenter the brain and expose the ableist biases in the dominant thinking about personhood. Unraveling articulates a novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on such concepts as animation, modularity, and facilitation. It does so through close readings of memoirs by individuals who lost their hearing or developed trauma-induced aphasia, as well as family members of people diagnosed as autistic—texts that rethink modes of subjectivity through experiences with communication, caregiving, and the demands of everyday life.