Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

Conference Themes

The symposium will address the following topics: 

• The mind/body as object of scientific and medical knowledge

• Media technologies and new arenas of sensory experience 

• The blurred boundaries between science, technology and culture

• Encounters between the ‘biological’ and the ‘technological’

• Technologies of the self and self-fashioning

• Disciplinary power, biopolitics and techniques of bodily management

• Understandings of human variation and dis/ability