The Public Brain: Ideology and the Neuroscientific Turn from the Polis to Platforms

Joss Hands connects historical understandings of the brain with the histories of politics and democracy to address contemporary concerns about social media, democratic collapse, and technological control.
The Public Brain explores how politics and the public sphere have been understood in different societies and eras, in light of the prevailing conception of the brain in each period-particularly how the brain's capacities and characteristics have been used to justify the dominant political ...