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Beyond and before the label: The ecologies and agencies of ADHD

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It cannot escape our attention: deficit/hyperactivity disorder is everywhere. Debates about it are heated. As a category, it is contested and so are available treatment options. It is, well, murky, fuzzy, slippery territory. Draw a map and you will have to write in hc svnt dracones more than once.

Acknowledgments and editorial note: This chapter was planned to be an updated version of Stingl’s previous work on ADHD and science studies (Sting1 2010), while Stingl and Weiss were collaborating on several writing projects and an ADHD-related grant proposal. A discussion of Weiss’s paper to be presented at 4S 2012, transported several ideas we had recently co-developed into the discourse on ADHD, changing many aspects of this chapter. Subsequently, an entirely novel ‘director’s cut’ of this chapter was written by Stingl, It was more than three times as large as would have been possible to include in this publication. Stingl and Weiss condensed and rewrote the chapter accordingly into the present form. We also would like to thank our students and colleagues at Leuphana University, Lüneburg and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, our informants, the professional and (education) student audiences who come to our talks, and academic friends who have offered supportive and productive critique on this and other subjects over the past few years. In particular, we would like to thank the editors of this volume, as well as the Nuremberg/Fuerth ‘rainbow group’, the Seattle ‘alchemists’, also Sal Restivo. Hans Bakker. Gareth Edel. Ron Eglash, John Ratey. Ellen Langer. Jonah Friedman, Donald Levine, Torben Schneider, and Mike Bare.

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    One of our ‘traveling definitions’ for anthropocology is: When negotiation of boundaries fail, it is because limitations of embodiment apply. For the human topography, the intersections with the world are the natural environments, the social environments, the cultural environments. These relations within the human ecology [the Within], are dialectical, interactive,wechselwirkende interaction, we are becoming less analog and more digital, we become more diffracted, more parallactic, more displaced. And with that, our ecology turns the letter N in Nature into the more emphasized capital N. Tbe nature humans as bodies actually really live (as furniture) in and the Nature that they furnish (and are garnish for)- anthropocology -are two diffracted things (it is the diffraction itself that is anthropocology). Tbe human ontologies, as historic ontologies, are therefore figuratively (furnishment) and literally (garnishment) problematic. That is because they are referring to conceptualizations for surrounding ecologies that construct emerging and developing environments in relations that eventually form the human point of view to mean that there is no human bios without human zoë or human ethos.

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    An „intellectual climate circumscribes the field of the conceptual relations or potentialities that an interlocutor can possibly make. Relations include analogies, metaphors, equivocations,

    comparisons, creative misunderstandings, &c. The history of scientific progress is, in my account, a history of creative misunderstandings and equivocations. The intellectual climate’s diachronic aspect is understood as a thought-scape (or Denkraum [Dieter Henrich]). A thought-scape represents a field or sphere of cognitively possible/intelligible problems or problematizations (Foucault). Problematization describes a historical and social situation that constructs potential outcomes of truth-and-false selections in a web of possible solutions. This problematizationis also described as a ‘historical space of conditioned contingency’ (paul Rabinow): In the progress of discourses throughout history, a chain of discoveries may lead to the emergence of new problems. At first, these problems remain largely implicit and cannot be made explicit for lack of proper concepts. They keep summing up and remain implicitly present but unresolved, until they are concretized and rendered explicit (and largely public) by a string of publications or public enunciations that th.ereby open up a new thought-scape." (Stingl 2011)

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    The field of potentially accessible sensory inputs, of which a portion can be in "focus" to an observing agent. Even if an input is not instantaneously available, if it is readily available within a scope of ease for the agent/contextual standards, it can be part of the mindscape. This notably adds an interactive dimension between the agent's context (usually culturally/socially informed) and the features of the accessing technology (somatic/material/social). ex. James Bond’s watch, a technological aid to perceive time, would usually be available, even if not in view and covered by a sleeve. But if James Bond is tied down, he can’t move his arm so that the watch is visible to him and thus it would not count as being within his minds cape. His options are to free his arm. (a somatic technology), trigger a gadget in his watch (material technology), or ask a pretty Bond Girl to read it for him (social technology). With one of these options, he can count his watch as being once again within his mindscape.

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Stingl, A., Weiss, S. (2013). Beyond and before the label: The ecologies and agencies of ADHD. In: Dellwing, M., Harbusch, M. (eds) Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18784-6_9

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