The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future

308 Pages·2005·52.8 MB·English

by  Marquard Smith (editor), Joanne Morra (editor)

THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE
FROM A POSTHUMAN PRESENT TO A BIOCULTURAL FUTURE
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THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE

THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE
FROM A POSTHUMAN PRESENT TO A BIOCULTURAL FUTURE
Edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra
The MIT Prcs~ Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
0 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publiairion Data
The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman pn.-scnt to a biocultural future I edited by
Marquard Smith and Joa1me Morra
p. cm.
Includes bibliographjcaJ references and index.
ISBN 0-262-19530-5 (he : alk. paper)
1. Body, Human-Socia] aspects. 2. Body, Hu111an-Tccl111ological innovations. 3. Pros
thesis-Technological innovations. 4. Medical innovatiom. I. Smith, Marquard. 11. Morra,
Joanne.
GN298.P76 2006
306.4-dc22
10 9 8 7 6 4 2
CONTENTS
Acknowledgmems---vii
Introduction
Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra--1
1 Carnality: Detween Phenomenology and the Biocultural
2 A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality
Vivian Sobchack---17
3 The Vulnerable Arriculate:James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins,
and Matthew Barney
Marquard Smith --43
4 The Physiology of Art
Alphonso Lingis---73
5 Stumped by Genes: U11g11a Garaca, ONA, and Prosthesis
Lennard J. Davis--91
6 The Bug's Body: A Disappearing Act
Gary Genosko --107
7 On the Subject of Neural and Sensory Prostheses
Lisa Cartwright and Brian Goldfarb--- 125
8 Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of War, 1945 to 2005
David Serlin--155
11 Assembling: I1 1ternalization. Externalization
9 Naked
Elizabeth Grosz --187
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10 Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the
Externalization of the Mind
Lev Manovich---203
II Prosthetists at 33;{
Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz---221
12 Techneology or the Discourse of Speed
David Wi!Js---237
13 Drawing Machine: Working through the Materiality of Rauschenberg's
Dante and Derrida's Freud
Joanne Morra---265
List of Contributors---289
lndex--293
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We extend our deepest thanks to the contributors to 771e Prosthetic /111p11/se: From
a Postli11111t111 Prese11t to a Biowlt11ml F11111re for their enthusiasm, generosiry, humor,
and commitment to this project. This book has been a long time in coming, so
we arc grateful for their stamina and their considered, provocative, and enduring
thoughts. It's been a pleasure. Thanks also to Boris Belay, Steve Connor, Joanna
Delorme at Galilee, Kate Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Katherine
Ott, Norris Pope at Stanford Universiry Press, Vivian Rehberg, Avita! Ronell,
Jeffrey Shaw, Sandy Stone, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, and Ben Watson.
Thanks to the excellent advice from our anonymous referees, and finally to
Roger Conover and Lisa Reeve, and Deborah Cantor-Adams, Susan Clark, and
Emily Gutheinz for their faith in this project and their encouragement from be
ginning to end.
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