User:Lidia.Pereira/GRS/OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Drawing on research interests centered around social construction, subject design and embodied reality, OCD as a media object intends to map the feedback relationship existing between subjectivation and the brain defense mechanisms. [Steve:also might be interesting to see how people started to think about nervous systems and the human brain as feedback mechanisms = see Pickering The Cybernetic Brain and Heins The Cybernetic Group - in both books you get an idea about how feedback of an organism leads to modification of environment, which loops &c One could take this from a cybernetic viewpoint, that OCD is positive feedback and them question the premise]. Besides that, it intends to study how the exponential growth of socially engineered networks impacts anxiety related disorders which attempt to shape their surroundings. In an almost perverse way, how does diagnosing oneself as affected by the illness that attempts to gain back control feeds into a normalizing, categorization discourse?