%0 Journal Article
%T The neuropolitical habitus of resonant receptive democracy
%A Romand Coles
%J Ethics & Global Politics
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/egp.v4i4.14447
%X In this paper, I argue that the recent work on mirror neurons illuminates the character of our capacities for a politics of resonant receptivity in ways that both help us to comprehend the damages of our contemporary order and suggest indispensable alternative ethical¨Cstrategic registers and possible directions for organising a powerful movement towards radical democracy. In doing so, neuroscience simultaneously contributes to our understanding of the possibility and importance of a more durable (less fugitive) radically democratic habitus. While the trope, ¡®radically democratic habitus¡¯, may seem oxymoronic in light of Bourdieu's extensive rendering of ¡®habitus¡¯, I suggest that research on mirror neurons discloses ways in which iterated practices and dispositional structures are crucial for democratic freedom.
%K radical democracy
%K mirror neurons
%K receptivity
%K political resonance
%K habitus
%K resonance machine
%K mimesis
%K affect
%U http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/14447/18504