TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Marquard
AU  - Morra,Joanne
TI  - The prosthetic impulse: from a posthuman present to a biocultural future 
SN  - 0262195305
AV  - GN298 .P76 2006
U1  - 306.4613 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Prosthesis
KW  - Medical innovations
KW  - Medicine in art
KW  - Amputees
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Prostheses and Implants
KW  - psychology
KW  - Biomedical Technology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Tertiary/Undergraduate; Postgraduate
N2  - 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
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