The psychopathologies of cognitive capitalism

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What is the future of the mind under cognitive capitalism? Can a term such as plastic materialism describe the substantive changes in neural architecture instigated by a contingent cultural habitus? What about the unconscious under these conditions? How might it be modified, mutated, and modulated by the evolving conditions of global attention? The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part 1 is part of a series that will pursue these and other questions. The conference brought together an international array of philosophers, critical theorists, media theorists, art historians, architects, and artists to discuss the state of the mind and the brain under the conditions of cognitive capitalism