The prosthetic impulse :  from a posthuman present to a biocultural future / 
edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. 
 - vii, 297 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality --  The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney --  The physiology of art --  Stumped by genes : Lingua Gataca, DNA, and prosthesis --  The bug's body : a disappearing act --  On the subject of neural and sensory prostheses --  Disability, masculinity, and the prosthetics of war, 1945 to 2005 --  Naked --  Visual technologies as cognitive prostheses : a short history of the externalization of the mind --  Prosthetists at 33 1/3 --  Technology or the discourse of speed --  Drawing machine : working through the materiality of Rauschenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Tertiary/Undergraduate.  Postgraduate. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262195305 9780262195300 0262693615 9780262693615 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005041684 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human body--Social aspects.<br/>Human body--Technological innovations<br/>Prosthesis--Technological innovations<br/>Medical innovations<br/>Medicine in art.<br/>Amputees--Psychology.<br/>Metaphor.<br/>Prostheses and Implants--psychology<br/>Biomedical Technology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN298  / .P76 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4613