%0 Journal Article
%T There Is No Brain: Rethinking Neuroscience through a Nomadic Ontology
%A David R Gruber
%J Body & Society
%@ 1460-3632
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1357034X19838320
%X Building from recent attempts in the humanities and social sciences to conceive of creative, entangled ways of doing interdisciplinary work, I turn to Braidotti¡¯s ¡®nomadic ontology¡¯ to (re)vision the human body without a brain. Her exploration of the body as a ¡®threshold of transformations¡¯ is put into conversation with Deleuze¡¯s comments on neurobiology to consider what a brainless body might do, or undo, in neuroscientific practice. I ground discussion in a case study, detailing the practices of brain decoding or ¡®mind reading,¡¯ re-interpreting Rose¡¯s account. Therein, I argue that the technical-social configurations of brain decoding are unlikely to usher in a radically new ontology, as Rose suggests. To better match Rose¡¯s vision and align with new ontologies in cultural theory, I argue that neuroscience must become nomadic and embrace a body without a brain. I then conclude with six recommendations towards a nomadic neuroscience
%K Deleuze
%K mind reading
%K neuroscience
%K nomadism
%K ontology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1357034X19838320