CounterpointStimulating debate with the British Council

Last night we hosted a screening of Jaak Kilmi’s fantastic film ‘Disco and Atomic War’. We hired one of the Curzon screens, sent out invites and hoped that people would be as intrigued as we’d been by the title..

It may be a case of collective narcissism, but the past couple of years have seen us all enthralled by the extraordinary insights of neuroscience. Stem-cell research and human enhancement drugs may revolutionise what we can be and do in the near future, but neuroscience makes a special play for our affections by promising to revolutionise our self-understanding. But we must be careful about abstracting the neurological from the cultural and social context in which it occurs.