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Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, this book introduces the concept of worlding as a new way to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Case studies ranging from film, literature, music, and dance to pedagogy, historical trauma, and present-day discourses of mindfulness investigate how brains are worlded in an active interplay of biological, cognitive, and socio-discursive factors. Combining scholarly work with personal accounts of neurodiversity and essays by artists reflecting on their practical engagement with cognition, Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the study of brains and cognition and explores novel forms interdisciplinarity.

Stephan Besser (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2009), is assistant professor in literary studies and modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Pathographie der Tropen: Literatur, Medizin und Kolonialismus um 1900 (2013).

Flora Lysen (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2020), is assistant professor in science and technology studies at Maastricht University. She is the author of Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020(2022).