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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marquard Smith; Joanne Morra |
| ISBN: | 9780262693615 0262693615 |
| OCLC Number: | 153554350 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2006. |
| Description: | vii, 297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. |
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"Intriguing and delightful... Together, these essays offer real insight into what means to be human in a pervasively mechanical world." The Futurist
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