The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future / edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra.

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text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0262195305
9780262195300
0262693615
9780262693615

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DDC classification:

306.4613

LOC classification:

GN298 .P76 2006

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality -- 3. The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney -- 4. The physiology of art -- 5. Stumped by genes : Lingua Gataca, DNA, and prosthesis -- 6. The bug's body : a disappearing act -- 7. On the subject of neural and sensory prostheses -- 8. Disability, masculinity, and the prosthetics of war, 1945 to 2005 -- 9. Naked -- 10. Visual technologies as cognitive prostheses : a short history of the externalization of the mind -- 11. Prosthetists at 33 1/3 -- 12. Technology or the discourse of speed -- 13. Drawing machine : working through the materiality of Rauschenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud.

Summary: Concerned with cybernetics, transplant technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, "the prosthetic" conjures up a posthuman condition. The thirteen essays here reassert the phenomenological, material, and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential.Review: "The thirteen original essays in The Prosthetic Impulse reassert the phenomenological, material and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential. They examine the historical and conceptual edge between the human and the posthuman - between flesh and its accompanying technologies. Rather than tracking the transformation of one into the other, these essays address this borderline instead, and the delicate dialectical situation in which it places us. Concentrating on this edge, the collection demonstrates how the human has been technologized and technology humanized."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concerned with cybernetics, transplant technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, "the prosthetic" conjures up a posthuman condition. The thirteen essays here reassert the phenomenological, material, and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential.

"The thirteen original essays in The Prosthetic Impulse reassert the phenomenological, material and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential. They examine the historical and conceptual edge between the human and the posthuman - between flesh and its accompanying technologies. Rather than tracking the transformation of one into the other, these essays address this borderline instead, and the delicate dialectical situation in which it places us. Concentrating on this edge, the collection demonstrates how the human has been technologized and technology humanized."--BOOK JACKET.