Prostheses in the Digital Age

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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)