My Neuromatic Cut‐Up

NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAINBy John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021 . Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. The offering I've brought into this ritual scene is a cut-up. It's a dialogic cut-up: of quotations from Neuromatic and questions from me. The scanning mechanism that I am is, I suspect, calibrated interrogatively. Neuromatic had my synapses firing like disco lights at Studio 54—its own kind of Dream Machine (224–25, 249–54). These questions are their neurotechnic traces. They're my ways, through my body–brain, of celebrating Neuromatic.