Capitalist restructuring and neuroscience rethinks evolved in parallel.

Evidence

How could we not note a similarity of functioning between this economic organization and neuronal organization? How could we not interrogate the parallelism between the transformation of the spirit of capitalism (between the sixties and the nineties) and the modification, brought about in approximately the same period, of our view of cerebral structures? I have underlined the effect of the naturalization of the social attached to neuronal functioning. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s task: this is where the brain-workplace analogy lives. The question is whether Malabou argues the parallel or merely asserts the simultaneity — relevant to catching the substitution in memos. — connects to: 1960s psychedelic drug culture prefigured the neoliberal plastic self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 420; ADHD and dyslexia are pathologies of late capitalist control circuits — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 54