Even neuroscience’s own descriptions can reinforce the ideological screen.

Evidence

By ”screen” I mean both the cliche´ representations that I have just analyzed and the (only apparently) more ”noble” resistances mounted against the neurosciences—more precisely against the cognitive sciences—by the majority of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and intellectuals in general. ”Screen” also applies to the scientific descriptions themselves, which, pretending to lift the screen, really just reinforce it by producing no critical analysis of the worldview they implicitly drive. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 137

Categorization

• XREF: Adds a third layer to the reader’s caution: even well-meaning neuroscience prose can smuggle in the neo-liberal worldview. Reinforces the vigilance needed when reading management memos citing brain science.
• QUESTION: How does one distinguish genuine neuroscience that resists the worldview from descriptions that ‘pretend to lift the screen’? Worth chasing.