Descriptions of brain function always carry implicit political stances

Evidence

We can thus affirm that there is no scientific study of the modalities of cerebral power that does not by the same token—implicitly and usually unconsciously— adopt a stance with respect to the contemporary power of the very study within which it operates. There is today an exact correlation between descriptions of brain functioning and the political understanding of commanding. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 114

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how ‘brain-as-organization’ metaphors in management literature smuggle in political and economic assumptions about what authority should look like.