For the past 12 years Warren Neidich has created elaborate diagrams as models of thinking that form the basis of his works of art and his essays. This book is a history of one drawing as it was transformed from works on paper into a disseminated poster project into a wall drawing and finally into a projected light installation.

Warren Neidich uses diagrammatic drawings as a means to elucidate his interest in the way that ideas of historical materialism produce a theory of mind, especially in the context of post-Fordist labor practices and the information age. He refers to this as Neuropower when the apparatus of the Empire administrates subjectivity through interventions upon cultural and neurobiological plasticity.

Neidich believes, as many post-conceptualist artists have, that art has the potential to explore fields of knowledge beyond the normal boundaries of aesthetics, such as sociology, anthropology, politics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Utilizing the apparatus, materials, procedures, spaces, and performances of their aesthetic discourses, whether it be film, photography, painting, sculpture, or installation, artists have the potential to create an alternative paradigm which at times can be a form of resistance.