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Prosthesis

Engelsk Paperback

Prosthesis

Engelsk Paperback

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An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects

Prosthesis is a landmark work in posthuman thought that analyzes and explores the human body as a technology, seamlessly integrated (both physically and psychologically) with prosthetics.  Here David Wills lays the groundwork for ideas he develops in two of his other books, Dorsality, exploring how technology functions behind or before the human, and Inanimation, giving perspective on what it means to be “alive.” 

In Prosthesis, Wills promotes the idea that the human body is open to supplementation by artificial addenda that operate both internally or externally and engage it in an unceasing arbitration with the environment. Questioning the opposition between animate and inanimate along with the logic of the automatic prioritization of living flesh, Prosthesis undertakes these assumptions by studying thematics of artificiality through the writings of Freud, Derrida, William Gibson, Peter Greenaway, and others. In the twenty-five years since its first publication, Prosthesis has been a point of reference in the field of disability studies. It has also been recognized for its “prosthetic” writing, consisting of academic and autobiographical voices and styles that are artificially attached to one another. 

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9781517911553
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1517911559
Udg. Dato:
19 jan 2021
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
19 jan 2021
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