'The anatomy of our discontent': from braining the mind to mindfulness for teachers. Issue 2 (4th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Baker, Bernadette M.; Saari, Antti
• Is Part Of: Discourse. Volume 39:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 183
• Publication Date: 2018-03-04
• Subjects: Mindfulness -- neuroscience -- teaching' new biology -- history of science -- Foucault; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Australia -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1394425
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0159-6306

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper offers an overview of contemporary inscriptions of mindfulness, their conditions of possibility, and examples of the braining of mind on which contemporary neuro-meets-contemplative turns are dependent. We examine key nineteenth-century events integral to the formation of Biologies Old, in which historic debates over 'the death of God' in Western worldviews forge a space of finitude dedicated to fleshy materiality and the relocation of bios . We also examine what emerges in the wake of such debates, including how Biologies New and a transcendence/immanence horizon continues to reverberate through popular, contemporary recommendations for mindfulness in teaching.