The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future - Smith, Marquard; Morra, Joanne (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006)
A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / Vivian Sobchack -- The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith -- The physiology of art / Alphonso Lingis -- Stumped by genes : lingua gataca, DNA, and prosthesis / Lennard J. Davis -- The bug's body : a disappearing act / Gary Genosko -- On the subject of neural and sensory prostheses / Lisa Cartwright, Brian Goldfarb -- Disability, masculinity, and the prosthetics of war, 1945 to 2005 / David Serlin -- Naked / Elizabeth Grosz -- Visual technologies as cognitive prostheses : a short history of the externalization of the mind / Lev Manovich -- Prosthetists at 33-1/3 / Raiford Guins, Omayra Zaragoza Cruz -- Technology or the discourse of speed / David Wills -- Drawing machine : working through the materiality of Rauschenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud / Joanne Morra.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Technological innovations; Prosthesis -- Technological innovations; Medical innovations; Corps humain -- Aspect social; Corps humain -- Innovations; x; x; Menselijk lichaam; Prothesen; Technische vernieuwing; Cyberculture; Sociale aspecten; Filosofische aspecten