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02878aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 E84839BE471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190325s2019 enka b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1913029565 020 $a 9781913029562 035 $a (OCoLC)1090471287 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d OCL $d SILO 050 4 $a B72 M69 2019 100 1 $a Moynihan, Thomas T. $e author. 245 10 $a Spinal catastrophism : $b a secret history / $c Thomas Moynihan. 264 1 $a Falmouth : $b Urbanomic Media Ltd , $c 2019. 300 $a xx, 332 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Mono ; $v 007 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 8 $a The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and "organic memory" that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from "railway spine" to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history. 650 0 $a Philosophy $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Human body. 650 0 $a Spine. 650 0 $a Spinal cord. 830 0 $a Mono (Urbanomic (Firm)); $v 007. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505012657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E84839BE471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search