The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future / edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.Description: vii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262195305 (alk. paper)
  • 9780262195300 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN 298 .P76 2006
Contents:
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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection GN298 .P76 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98632185

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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