{"id":895,"date":"2025-11-30T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/?post_type=ponencia&#038;p=895"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:39:27","slug":"neuro-ancestral-imaginations-how-to-deal-with-exceedingly-speculative-potentially-colonialist-scientific-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"ponencia","link":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/ponencia\/neuro-ancestral-imaginations-how-to-deal-with-exceedingly-speculative-potentially-colonialist-scientific-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuro-ancestral imaginations. How to deal with exceedingly speculative (potentially colonialist) scientific knowledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Hugo Sir R., (2024). \u201cPower of fictions. Ancestral etiologies and political imagination in the ADHD hunter hypothesis\u201d. ASAP\/15 Conference: Not a Luxury (New York, EEUU, 17-19 October). &#8220;Methodologies of Excess: Practices of Imagination, Fiction, and Contagion in the Southern Cone&#8221; Panel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I titled this talk using the word &#8216;exceedingly,&#8217; echoing Stafford Beer, a key figure in the CYBERSYN\/SYNCO socialist Chilean cybernetic Project, who described cybernetics as not only the science of control but, as Andrew Pickering phrased it, &#8216;The Science of the Unknowable.&#8217; Beer, also known in the 1950s as &#8216;the father of managerial cybernetics,&#8217; defined a realm where systems\u2014like the Economy, the Firm, and the Brain\u2014are so complex that we cannot fully know them, and must assume this in order to orient their processes. I won&#8217;t be able to explore all the political implications of Beer\u2019s approach here, but I want to offer two points to hopefully enrich the panel discussion. First, while I suspect Beer\u2019s choice of examples, I admire the gesture of recognizing something so &#8216;exceedingly&#8217; complex that we must step back and avoid imposing our own terms. I bring this to help us engage with the scientific etiological hypothesis I\u2019ll share shortly. Second, I encountered this pre-SYNCO version of Beer while researching the genealogical roots of ADHD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Sir R., (2024). \u201cPower of fictions. Ancestral etiologies and political imagination in the ADHD hunter hypothesis\u201d. ASAP\/15 Conference: Not a Luxury (New York, EEUU, 17-19 October). &#8220;Methodologies of Excess: Practices of Imagination, Fiction, and Contagion in the Southern Cone&#8221; Panel. I titled this talk using the word &#8216;exceedingly,&#8217; echoing Stafford Beer, a key figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","ponencia","type-ponencia","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponencias"],"acf":{"autor_de_la_publicacion":{"simple_value_formatted":"Hugo Sir R.","value_formatted":"Hugo Sir R.","value":"Hugo Sir R.","field":{"ID":268,"key":"field_68497f4bb77ce","label":"Autor de la Publicaci\u00f3n","name":"autor_de_la_publicacion","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"text","value":null,"menu_order":0,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":267,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"autor_de_la_publicacion","maxlength":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"placeholder":"","prepend":"","append":"","_name":"autor_de_la_publicacion","_valid":1}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ponencia\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ponencia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ponencia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}