NEUROCULTURES GLIMPSES INTO AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE EDITED by FRANCISCO ORTEGA AND FERNANDO VIDAL Table of Content Approaching the Neurocultural Spectrum: An Introduction FERNANDO VIDAL and FRANCISCO ORTEGA ................................................................................ 3 I Practices of the Cerebral Subject ............................................................................................. 25 1 Toward a Genealogy of Neuroascesis FRANCISCO ORTEGA ................................................................................................................................. 27 2 Experimental Ethics and the Science of the Meditating Brain JOhN TRESCh ............................................................................................................................................... 45 3 Neuronal Expressivity: On the Road to a New Naturalness GESA LINDEMANN .................................................................................................................................... 65 4 Neuroscience’s Impact on our Self-Identity: Perspectives from Ethics and Public Understanding ERIC RACINE and ZOë COSTA-VON AESCh ............................................................................... 79 II Dynamics of Naturalization .......................................................................................................... 95 5 The Cerebral Subject at the Junction of Naturalism and Antinaturalism MAURIZIO MELONI ................................................................................................................................... 97 6 The “Social” Brain: An Epistemological Chimera and a Sociological Truth ALAIN EhRENbERG ................................................................................................................................ 113 7 Political Neurotheology: Emergence and Revival of a Psychedelic Alternative to Cosmetic Psychopharmacology NICOLAS LANGLITZ ............................................................................................................................... 137