prostheses in the digital age
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Prostheses in the Digital Age
Pecha Kucha ENG 585
Digitial Pedagogy/ResearchNick Morris6 April 2010
The Posthuman
Prosthesis: 1553, "addition of a letter or syllable to a word," from L.L., from Gk. prosthesis "addition," from prostithenai "add to," from pros "to" + tithenai "to put, place" (see theme). Meaning "artificial body part" is first recorded 1706.
TROPE
MATERIALARTEFACT
Lev Manovich “Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind”
The Prosthetic Impulse (2006)
Ambroise Paré (1545)
Götz von Berlichingen (1504)
Edgar Allen Poe
“The Man That Was Used Up” (1839)
Ivor Abrahams’ eponymous painting of suit of clothes with no body
CYBERPUNK
STEAMPUNK
SALVAGEPUNK
La Jetée (1962), dir. Chris Marker
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)
Apotemnophilia
Armless (2010)
Right Superior Parietal Lobe – Body Image Map
BODY WITHOUT IMAGES
Ronald Reagan, Kings Row (1943)
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