Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.
The Prosthetic Imagination
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.
The Prosthetic Impulse
Author: Marquard Smith
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262195305
Category : Biomedical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Where does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262195305
Category : Biomedical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Where does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Prostheses in Antiquity
Author: Jane Draycott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351232371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351232371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Machine Man
Author: Max Barry
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307743225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307743225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
Prosthetic Memory
Author: Alison Landsberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231129268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231129268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art
Author: Charles R. Garoian
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438445482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
By beginning each chapter of The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art with an autobiographical assemblage of personal memory and cultural history, Charles R. Garoian creates a differential, prosthetic space. Within these spaces are the particularities of his own lived experiences as an artist and educator, as well as those of the artists, educators, critics, historians, and theorists whose research and creative scholarship he invokes—coexisting and coextending in manifold ways. Garoian suggests that a contiguous positioning of differential narratives within the space of art research and practice constitutes prosthetic pedagogy, enabling learners to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among their own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others. Such robust relationality of cultural differences and peculiarities brings about interminable newness to learners' understanding of the other, which challenges the intellectual closure, reductionism, and immutability of academic, institutional, and corporate power.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438445482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
By beginning each chapter of The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art with an autobiographical assemblage of personal memory and cultural history, Charles R. Garoian creates a differential, prosthetic space. Within these spaces are the particularities of his own lived experiences as an artist and educator, as well as those of the artists, educators, critics, historians, and theorists whose research and creative scholarship he invokes—coexisting and coextending in manifold ways. Garoian suggests that a contiguous positioning of differential narratives within the space of art research and practice constitutes prosthetic pedagogy, enabling learners to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among their own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others. Such robust relationality of cultural differences and peculiarities brings about interminable newness to learners' understanding of the other, which challenges the intellectual closure, reductionism, and immutability of academic, institutional, and corporate power.
Prosthetic Gods
Author: Robert Dixon
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702232701
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702232701
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Carnal Thoughts
Author: Vivian Sobchack
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520241299
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A group of sophisticated essays on how we experience film with all fives senses--and our sense of history .
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520241299
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A group of sophisticated essays on how we experience film with all fives senses--and our sense of history .
Unstoppable
Author: Nancy Furstinger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054487966X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Animals are both benefitting from and helping out the world of prosthetic science. Furstinger offers a glimpse into the cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing and brain-controlled prosthetics, that are helping to improve the lives of animals and humans alike. Full color.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054487966X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Animals are both benefitting from and helping out the world of prosthetic science. Furstinger offers a glimpse into the cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing and brain-controlled prosthetics, that are helping to improve the lives of animals and humans alike. Full color.
The Outside of a Horse
Author: Ginny Rorby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101429445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to love Jack, Super Dee, and Indy; helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink; and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart. Hannah learns more than she ever imagined about horse training, abuse, and rescues, as well as her own capacity for hope. Physical therapy with horses could be the answer to her fatherÕs prayers, if only she can get him to try.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101429445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to love Jack, Super Dee, and Indy; helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink; and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart. Hannah learns more than she ever imagined about horse training, abuse, and rescues, as well as her own capacity for hope. Physical therapy with horses could be the answer to her fatherÕs prayers, if only she can get him to try.