• Feeling safe in a panbiotic world
    In Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight (eds.), Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres, Duke University Press. 2024.
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    Michel Serres
    Theory, Culture and Society 19 (3): 1-27. 2002.
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    This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs ‘new’ foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive, or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally ‘everywhere’. Drawing on a range of influential thinkers including Michel Serres, Michel Foucault, AN Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, the book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological, which stud…Read more
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    Rats, elephants, and bees as matters of concern
    Common Knowledge 17 (1): 71-76. 2011.
    This commentary on Isabelle Stengers's article, “Comparison as a Matter of Concern” is an assessment of her stance toward experimental psychology. At the various points in her work where she considers that discipline, she tends to accuse it of failing to embrace the “risk” that she sees as defining the “collective games” of science. Brown invokes the behavioral approach to experimental psychology of the early to mid-twentieth century to contextualize Stengers's treatment of continuous comparison…Read more