Background  Drawing on the work of the late French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari, the objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the evidence-based movement in the health sciences is outrageously exclusionary and dangerously normative with regards to scientific knowledge. As such, we assert that the evidence-based movement in health sciences constitutes a good example of microfascism at...

Since the early introduction of cardiopulmonary bypass, gaseous microemboli (GME) have been considered one of the potential causes of neurological deficit (1). A major step in attenuating the number of GME was the introduction of the arterial screen filter (2). The working principle of the filter is twofold; the filter screen creates a mechanical barrier for GME larger than its pore size and si...

In the approach that sustains this entire essay, besides my own trajectory as a researcher, path moves away from orthodox tradition, more Kantian one, incorporating in Social Theory philosophical line for long time forgotten, by including figures such Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), founding father, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), Henri Bergson (1859-1941), Gilb...

This paper examines diagrams as academic and theoretical tools. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1987), a diagram is defined as an abstract machine for constructing arguments. The theoretical diagram provides neither a direct representation of the natural world nor a representation of a natural data set, but a suggested theoretical walk through a landscape of data. It...

In this extended essay I revise the semiotic concept of Signal, updating it in relation to post-phenomenological perspectives on the technical extension of human perception by mediation. I define signal as periodicity and trace the structure of “regular recurrence” from wavelength to percept to memory. The discussion is situated as an “expansion” of semiotics towards cognition, applied science,...

Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers! concludes with an unexpected moment of extreme violence as two young lovers, Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, are murdered by Marie's husband in a mulberry orchard. Cather's novel is almost wholly devoted to the psychological interior of the protagonist, Alexandra Bergson, thereby rendering this violent interruption more dynamic as it essentially undercuts ...

Bergson's reflections (in Matter and Memory, 1896) on memory anticipated development of modern selectionist theories of memory. Selectionist models offer new and potentially useful approaches to a theory of remembering. On the model of natural selection, these selectionist theories require at least two processing components: a device which generates a range of memory representations and a selec...