Prosthetic Impulse From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future

Name: Prosthetic Impulse From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future
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ISBN: 9780262693615

ISBN-10: 0262693615

ISBN-13: 9780262693615

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marquard Smith, Joanne Morra

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Prosthesis--pointing to an addition, replacement, extension, enhancement--has become something of an all-purpose metaphor for the interactions of body and technology. Concerned with cybernetics, transplant technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, among other cultural and scientific developments, "the prosthetic" conjures up a posthuman condition. In response to this, 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. …

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 7.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Joanne Morra is Senior Lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is principal editor of the journal of visual culture.



Acknowledgments



Introduction




Carnality: Between Phenomenology and the Biocultural



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 Neutral and Sensory Prostheses




Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of War, 1945 to 2005




Assembling: Internalization. Externalization



Naked




Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind




Prosthetists at 33 1/3




Techneology or the Discourse of Speed




Drawing Machine: Working through the Materiality of Rauchenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud



List of Contributors


Index