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LOGIC(S)
Issue 22
Out of Place

Psychopathic Imaging: Linking Brain
Scans to Criminal Behavior
A Conversation with Oliver Rollins

Image: Photographs of fifty “criminal brains” from an exhibit by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, 1921. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, via National Library of Medicine.
LOGIC(S)
Issue 22
Out of Place

There's something important about the structure of science and how it's being funded right now.
Funders are increasingly prioritizing funding for sciences that utilize genetic, neuroscientific, and now AI-based logics as the best tools to understand and potentially solve our social problems. This, in turn, invites and incentivizes research that continues-despite potential ethical or social harms-to toe the line of racial science.
LOGIC(S)
Issue 22
Out of Place

"We need more than neuroethics. We actually need a politic."
— Oliver Rollins
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Posted On: February 11th 2025, 05:28 pm
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Oliver Rollins - qualitative sociologist and assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at @mit - discusses his research on race and the production and use of neuroscientific technologies with Logic(s)’ @suchetaghoshal. Neurocriminology, much like all science, does not happen in a vacuum; social, political, and economic structures restrict and enable this field. While locating the funding sources for neurocriminology research helps us make sense of the field’s priorities, questioning its ties to previously established forms of racial sciences such as eugenics leads us to a more fundamental question: Why does the US academy invest so much capital in the flawed scientistic endeavor of locating biological roots of violence?

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📸: Photographs of fifty “criminal brains” from an exhibit by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, 1921. Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, via National Library of Medicine.

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Comments (1)
fka_geebs a year ago

fka_geebs

what if defining the human is just such a massive problem elementally that any project that seeks to “ethically” take it up will continue to appeal to an inability to be anti-genocidal?

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