The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future /

The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future / edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. - vii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / physiology of art / Stumped by genes : lingua gataca, DNA, and prosthesis / 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 / Vivian Sobchack -- Marquard Smith -- Alphonso Lingis -- Lennard J. Davis -- Gary Genosko -- Lisa Cartwright, Brian Goldfarb -- David Serlin -- Elizabeth Grosz -- Lev Manovich -- Raiford Guins, Omayra Zaragoza Cruz -- David Wills -- Joanne Morra. A The The The

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Human body--Social aspects.
Human body--Technological innovations.
Prosthesis--Technological innovations.
Medical innovations.
Corps humain--Aspect social.
Corps humain--Innovations.
Proth�eses--Innovations.
M�edecine--Innovations.
Menselijk lichaam.
Prothesen.
Technische vernieuwing.
Cyberculture.
Sociale aspecten.
Filosofische aspecten.

GN 298 / .P76 2006