The Prosthetic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Imagination write by Peter Boxall. This book was released on 2020-09-03. The Prosthetic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.
The Prosthetic Imagination
The Prosthetic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Imagination write by Peter Boxall. This book was released on 2020-09-03. The Prosthetic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 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.
The Prosthetic Impulse
The Prosthetic Impulse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosthetic Impulse write by Marquard Smith. This book was released on 2006. The Prosthetic Impulse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Prosthetic Memory
Prosthetic Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosthetic Memory write by Alison Landsberg. This book was released on 2004. Prosthetic Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prosthetic 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.
Prostheses in Antiquity
Prostheses in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostheses in Antiquity write by Jane Draycott. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Prostheses in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, 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.
