The Prosthetic Impulse
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-69361-5 (ISBN)
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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 13 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 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.
The eclectic approach taken by The Prosthetic Impulse draws on disciplines ranging from gender studies, philosophy, and visual culture to psychoanalysis, cybertheory, and phenomenology. The first section, "Carnality: Between Phenomenology and the Biocultural" concentrates on the organic, describing a body that, by its very materiality, is always and already prosthetic. The second section, "Assembling: Internalization. Externalization," considers the technological qualities and peculiarities of prosthesis, raising questions about the ways in which film, photography, AI, drawing, and literature-representation itself-can be situated within the framework of a prosthetic discourse. Taken together, the essays suggest that prosthesis is material as well as metaphorical. "It is just a matter of pondering where the inelegant edges lie," the editors write, "and living them most wonderfully."
Marquard Smith is Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He is a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture. 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. Marquard Smith is Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He is a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture. 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. Elizabeth Grosz is the Julian Park Chair in Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lev Manovich is Professor in the PhD Program in Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press), hailed as "the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan," and other books. Raiford Guins is Professor of Culture and Technology at Stony Brook University and the author of Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife (MIT Press).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2007 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The Prosthetic Impulse |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 771 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium |
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| ISBN-10 | 0-262-69361-5 / 0262693615 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-69361-5 / 9780262693615 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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