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"""With Brainmedia Flora Lysen offers fascinating insights on the interplay of technology and experience, mediation and presence, discourse and politics that go far beyond the history of neuroscience: In pursuit of a critical understanding of the phenomena, Flora Lysen engages with brain research as current predicament and provides her readers with an engaging media-philosophical perspective."" --Cornelius Borck, Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lübeck, Germany, and author of Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography ""Combining media and science studies, this brilliant book shows how the 20th century turned the brain into an epistemic spectacle. It reconstructs the curves, projectors and screen technologies that were used for publicly displaying the living brain at work. By the same token, it critically questions our drive to create and consume ""time images"" of the cerebral that highlight liveliness, transparency and immediacy. The result is a compelling account of the brain as a medium and message firmly tied to the power and time relations of modern culture."" --Henning Schmidgen, Professor of Media Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany"

With Brainmedia Flora Lysen offers fascinating insights on the interplay of technology and experience, mediation and presence, discourse and politics that go far beyond the history of neuroscience: In pursuit of a critical understanding of the phenomena, Flora Lysen engages with brain research as current predicament and provides her readers with an engaging media-philosophical perspective. --Cornelius Borck, Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lubeck, Germany, and author of Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography Combining media and science studies, this brilliant book shows how the 20th century turned the brain into an epistemic spectacle. It reconstructs the curves, projectors and screen technologies that were used for publicly displaying the living brain at work. By the same token, it critically questions our drive to create and consume time images of the cerebral that highlight liveliness, transparency and immediacy. The result is a compelling account of the brain as a medium and message firmly tied to the power and time relations of modern culture. --Henning Schmidgen, Professor of Media Studies, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany

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Flora Lysen is a historian of science and media and a member of Maastricht University’s Science and Technology Studies research group in the Netherlands. Studying how scientific concepts develop and circulate between different disciplinary domains and social spaces, her work focuses on practices of imag(in)ing the body and the brain, in particular the interaction between technology and the senses.

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