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Author: Gabriel Brahm
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Published: 1995-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780813323695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefined as that space of collision between human and machine, where technology and humanity fuse, is the 'prosthetic territory.' Within that territory a new political and cultural struggle emerges, a territory where theory and practice can converge.
Author: Gabriel Brahm
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1995-07-11
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefined as that space of collision between human and machine, where technology and humanity fuse, is the 'prosthetic territory.' Within that territory a new political and cultural struggle emerges, a territory where theory and practice can converge.
Author: Marquard Smith
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0262195305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Author: Jane Draycott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351232371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not necessarily priorities. So, when, howand why did individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to explore prostheses and prosthesis use in classical antiquity, seeks to answer these questions, and will be of interest to academics and students with specialistinterests in classical archaeology, ancient history and history, especially those engaged in studies of healing, medical and surgical practices, or impairment and disability in past societies.
Author: Vivian Sobchack
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0520937821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a broad range of popular sources to explore bodily experience in contemporary, moving-image culture. She examines how, through the conflation of cinema and surgery, we've all "had our eyes done"; why we are "moved" by the movies; and the different ways in which we inhabit photographic, cinematic, and electronic space. Carnal Thoughts provides a lively and engaging challenge to the mind/body split by demonstrating that the process of "making sense" requires an irreducible collaboration between our thoughts and our senses.
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108872646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition.
Author: Alison Landsberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780231129268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProsthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories--to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which they themselves did not live.
Author: Robert Dixon
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780702232701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Ott
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0814761976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimultaneously critiquing, historicizing and theorizing prosthetics, this text lays out a balanced and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.
Author: Jos Boys
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1317197178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas and work. Richer approaches to disability – beyond regulation and design guidance – remain fragmented and difficult to find for architectural and built environment students, educators and professionals. By bringing together in one place some seminal texts and projects, as well as newly commissioned writings, readers can engage with disability in unexpected and exciting ways that can vibrantly inform their understandings of architecture and urban design. Most crucially, Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader opens up not just disability but also ability – dis/ability – as a means of refusing the normalisation of only particular kinds of bodies in the design of built space. It reveals how our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and spaces can be better understood through the lens of disability, and it suggests how thinking differently about dis/ability can enable innovative and new kinds of critical and creative architectural and urban design education and practice.
