Neurofutures

“A bold, timely, and important collection. A diverse and accessible group of essays, this book is bound to become required reading for scholars, students, and anyone else with an interest in neurodiversity.”–Rachel Adams, author of Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Time
“A brilliantly inclusive step toward imagining and enacting a neurodivergent res publica or republic. How to invent neurofutures outside of “enminding, grasping, hoarding”? How to emancipate our relationship to world-organizing systems including time itself, abandoning “chrononormative” assumptions? Roughly two dozen contributors to this volume, from diverse disciplinary and disability standpoints, will guide readers in “coming to their senses” collaboratively and openly.“–Deborah Jenson, Duke University
“Big tech companies are falling over one another to define (and to build) intelligence and intellect: to build a neurofuture. Read this collection instead. The stakes are high for this planet, for all of its beings. And the authors in this collection show us that these stakes actually hinge on neurodiversity. If we lose control of this narrative, we can be certain of an even more violent, inequitable, and dangerous neurofuture. This is a wonderful, engaging, accessible, definitive, careful, extraordinarily inclusive collection. It is also existentially necessary.”–Jay Dolmage, author of Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Elizabeth J. Donaldson (Editor)

Elizabeth J. Donaldson is the Inaugural Director of the School of Applied Sciences and Arts and Professor of English at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus. She is the editor of Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health.

Diana R. Paulin (Editor)

Diana Paulin is Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of American Studies & English at Trinity College and the author of Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction.

Ralph James Savarese (Editor)

Ralph James Savarese is the author of seven books, most recently Herman Melville & Neurodiversity, Or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?, and the coeditor of three other collections. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

M. Remi Yergeau (Editor)

M. Remi Yergeau is Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They are the author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness.

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