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Author : Sarah S. Jain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Prosthetic Fantasies written by Sarah S. Jain and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702232701
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Prosthetic Gods written by Robert Dixon and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Shaheen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198857780
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture written by Aaron Shaheen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
Author : Marquard Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262195305
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Prosthetic Impulse written by Marquard Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Author : Vivian Sobchack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520241282
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Carnal Thoughts written by Vivian Sobchack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of sophisticated essays on how we experience film with all fives senses--and our sense of history .
Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119052149
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Narrative Analysis written by Anna De Fina and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262062428
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Prosthetic Gods written by Hal Foster and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic subjects propounded by the futurist Marinetti and the vorticist Lewis. These "new egos" are further contrasted with the "bachelor machines" proposed by the dadaist Ernst. Foster also explores extrapolations from the art of the mentally ill in the aesthetic models of Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as manipulations of the female body in the surrealist photography of Brassai, Man Ray, and Hans Bellmer. Finally, he examines the impulse to dissolve the conventions of art altogether in the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the scatter pieces of Robert Morris, and the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and traces the evocation of lost objects of desire in sculptural work from Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti to Robert Gober. Although its title is drawn from Freud, Prosthetic Godsdoes not impose psychoanalytic theory on modernist art; rather, it sets the two into critical relation and scans the greater historical field that they share.
Author : Tamara S. Ketabgian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051407
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Machines written by Tamara S. Ketabgian and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExpanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era/div
Author : Debkumar Chakrabarti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030942775
Total Pages : 1760 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Ergonomics for Design and Innovation written by Debkumar Chakrabarti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Indian Society of Ergonomics (HWWE), held in Guwahati, India, on December 1-3, 2021. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, health care, management, computer science, and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on user-centered design for quality life, human factors and ergonomics, design applications, cognitive processing, and response. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety, and well-being of individuals. The proceedings includes papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers, and policy makers that contribute to constructing the human factors and ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains, and productive sectors.
Author : Sophia O'Brien-Udry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Prosthetic Fantasies written by Sophia O'Brien-Udry and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary K. DeShazer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472900986
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Mammographies written by Mary K. DeShazer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction. Mammographies is distinctive among studies of contemporary illness narratives in its exclusive focus on breast cancer, its analysis of both memoirs and photographic texts, its attention to hybrid and collaborative narratives, and its emphasis on ecological, genetic, transnational, queer, and anti-pink discourses. DeShazer’s methodology—best characterized as literary critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary—includes detailed interpretation of the narrative strategies, thematic contours, and visual imagery of a wide range of contemporary breast cancer memoirs and photographic anthologies. The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering.
Author : David T. Mitchell
Publisher : Corporealities: Discourses of
ISBN 13 : 0472054112
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Matter of Disability written by David T. Mitchell and published by Corporealities: Discourses of. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability
Author : Chris Salter
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549611
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Alien Agency written by Chris Salter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions. In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art—the “stuff of the world”—behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying these works—all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology—allows him to focus on practice through the experiential and affective elements of creation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observation and on his own experience as an artist, Salter investigates how researcher-creators organize the conditions for these experimental, performative assemblages—assemblages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing. Salter reports on the sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A) and their efforts to capture and then project unnoticed urban sounds; tracks the multi-year project TEMA (Tissue Engineered Muscle Actuators) at the art research lab SymbioticA and its construction of a hybrid “semi-living” machine from specially grown mouse muscle cells; and describes a research-creation project (which he himself initiated) that uses light, vibration, sound, smell, and other sensory stimuli to enable audiences to experience other cultures' “ways of sensing.” Combining theory, diary, history, and ethnography, Salter also explores a broader question: How do new things emerge into the world and what do they do?
Author : Emilia Nielsen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148753003X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives written by Emilia Nielsen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with discussions surrounding the culture of disease, Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives explores politically insistent narratives of illness. Resisting the optimism of pink ribbon culture, these stories use anger as a starting place to reframe cancer as a collective rather than an individual problem. Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives discusses the ways emotion, gender, and sexuality, in relation to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, all become complicated, relational, and questioning. Providing theoretically informed close-readings of breast cancer narratives, this study explores how disruption functions both personally and politically. Highlighting a number of contributors in the field of health and gender studies including Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathlyn Conway, Audre Lorde, and Teva Harrison, this work takes into account documentary film, television, and social media as popular mediums used to explore stories of disease.
Author : Jane Draycott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351232371
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Prostheses in Antiquity written by Jane Draycott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alison Landsberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231129270
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Prosthetic Memory written by Alison Landsberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kelly Oliver
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426577
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva written by Kelly Oliver and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva's forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva's thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva's oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines.
