About this podcast
Brainland the podcast navigates the boundary between neuroscience, the arts and humanities with the occasional wander off piste. It began as a neuro-historical exploration of the background to the Brainland the opera but quickly spread its wings. A Brainland Collective production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 106 episodes
- THE ENTREPRENEUR: 'Pattern seeking' in Manchester... · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 25In this episode property management entrepreneur Will Lewis talks about his early training in surveying/property management and how this led to the creation of a…
- THE PROTO-PSYCHOLOGY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 24In this essay, sorry, podcast, Neil Kenny, specialist in French literature and society in the 16th and 17th centuries opens us the period in which Montaigne composed his…
- WIREHEADS: An unatural history of technology and the brain. · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 23In this episode cultural historian Mike Jay shares some of the stories in his new book 'Wireheads'. Our conversation ranges from an eighteenth century Bedlam patient to Elon…
- PATTERN SEEKING: Autism, evolution and us. · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 22In his book 'The Pattern Seekers' Sir Simon proposes that what has made us successful as a species is our ability to see patterns, 'systemise' and create 'if, then, and'…
- NEUROMANCER: Cyberpunk at 40. · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 21It is 42 years since the publication of William Gibson's game changing science fiction novel 'Neuromancer' and in 2027 Apple TV's much heralded 10 part adaptation of the novel is…
- THE RATIO CLUB: UK cybernetics powerhouse. · 1 h 31 min · Season 3 Episode 20In this special 100th episode of Brainland sometime co-host Andy Platman and Ken talk with Phil Husbands about the 'Ratio Club', a dining club of medics, mathematicians…
- WHAT HAS GREEK TRAGEDY EVER DONE FOR US? · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 19Did anyone write about human psychology long before there was such a term? Yes and this season we are going to discuss five of them, beginning with three Greek tragedians. 32 of…
- HUMANISH: The many faces of anthropomorphism · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 18In this conversation, animal behaviourist Justin Gregg talk through the many facets of our species' tendency to attribute human qualities to animals and things, as well as the…
- EXPLORING THE AUTISTIC BRAIN · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 17In another wide ranging conversation, Prof Rajesh Kana, author of the recent book 'The Neuroscience of Autism' walks us through this potentially complex subject. After…
- SPEAK! On the neuroscience of language... · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 16In this conversation Jonathan Peelle, language researcher and author of the a recent book on the subject, ranges over many aspects of the brain origins of language. We begin by…
- CHESS MASTERY AND THE ART OF THINKING SIDEWAYS · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 15In this episode expert chess player Jennifer Shahade talks about the world of competitive chess and her motivation for writing her recent book 'Thinking Sideways'. In a wide…
- THE VISIONARY FICTION OF KAREL ČAPEK · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 14In this episode John Rieder, a leading authority on early science fiction and its critique of colonialism and more talks about Czech writer Karel Čapek, whose play 'RUR'…
- CHESS HEAD: Could regular chess playing remodel your brain? · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 13In this episode we discuss the history and evolution of chess and how chess competence, up to grand master, is rated, including how this would stand up in a scientific research…
- CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN: Post-humanism in literature and film · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 12In this episode we explore how post-humanist ideas and perspectives, discussed in the earlier episode with Christine Daigle (season 2, episode 7), are reflected in literature and…
- FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Linguistic shape-shifting. · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 11In this episode we talk to linguist and academic Nicoletta Asciuto about her York university module 'Found in Translation' and four of her former students. Nicoletta talks about…
- DERRIDA'S CAT: Exploring the boundaries of the human. · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 10In this episode French philosophy specialist Judith Still talks about Jacque Derrida and in particular his late preoccupation with the animal-human boundary. After surveying…
- DOPPELGANGER: Doubles in psychiatry, neurology and fiction. · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 9In this extraordinarily wide ranging podcast, we talk about doubles from the point of view of psychopathology, neuroscience, and what they tell us about the nature of self. Our…
- BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 8Leading ethicist/philosopher Jonathan D. Moreno makes a welcome return to Brainland to discuss his recently published and compelling book 'ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL: Bioethics and the…
- POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 7In this episode Christine Daigle, a leading figure in posthumanist philosophy and material feminism, begins by defining those terms before unpacking some of the ideas in her…
- FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 6Mark Solms is a neuroscientist and psychoanalyst fluent in German, which is why in the 1990s, he agreed to take on the daunting task of collating and translating Freud's 23 years…
