Bodies

Rossini, Manuela

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“…In this regard, prosthetizicing archaeology might be comparable to imagineering – a concept that combines imagination and engineering (Rossini, 2017). Imagineering is the effect of an interaction between fictional approaches and engineering practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Manuela Rossini: “Rather sooner than later, cyborgs and other hybrids, androids, and technologically enhanced humans will people the earth (and maybe other planets). Imagineered in ‘scientifictive’ texts, such embodied subjects can be seen as cultural prefigurations of future human beings in the ‘real’ world” (Rossini, 2017: 165).…”

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Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Stobiecka

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Prosthetic archaeology is a theoretical proposal for a materially oriented digital practice. It is based on a critical approach to implementing the latest technologies in archaeology. Drawing from the philosophy of technology and prosthetic studies, this project offers a more critical and meaningful understanding of digital methods in archaeology. The main interpretative figure is the verb “to prostheticize.” Thus, prosthetic archaeology is not solely about prostheses — technological improvements understood as supplements. Rather, it is about the processes of “prostheticizing” archaeology, brought on by the digital turn in “the discipline of things.” A verbal understanding of this main category and its processual potential allows for a technological prosthesis to function as an active addition that does, makes, transforms, refers, evokes, (re)constructs, and generates meanings. The concept of prosthetic archaeology is illustrated with a discussion of the “Body Can’t Wait” advertising campaign organized in Paris, March 2018, where ancient and neoclassical sculptures were equipped with 3D-printed artificial limbs. Inspired by an advertising campaign that uses technology to raise social awareness and engage in current global problems, prosthetic archaeology may offer a prefigurative blueprint for a future, radical archaeology.

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Section: Proposing and Imagineering1mentioning

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Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Stobiecka

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…Indeed, as Katherine Hayles -one of the prominent researchers in the field of posthumanism -states, there is a tradition of human (humanistic) thinking in understanding the human body as prosthesis, the original one, which of course can be changed... 6 Thus we have two ways of approaching this issue, the historical one -from an evolutionary perspective, and the anticipatory vision -from a transformative point of view: "Current transformations of what it means to be human are the result not only of epistemological and ontological shifts brought about by anti-humanist and poststructuralist thought but, much more effectively, of the rapidly accelerating potential for technological modifications of the human body, from its largest outer parts down to its smallest inner components." 7 David Roden analyzed these two directions of investigation of posthumanism, starting from controversies about humanism. A first issue identified is that of speculative fiction: "Transhumanists, futurists and science fiction authors regularly concatenate or hyphenate 'post' and 'human' when speculating about the long-run influence of advanced technologies on the future shape of life and mind."…”

Section: Philosophy Body and Limitsmentioning

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“…In the dominant imaginary and increasingly in reality, bodies become infinitely malleable, plastic and liquid, to be performed and invented anew." 22 The two approaches are not opposed but complementary because, as Roden observes in 2010, "Speculative posthumanists claim that descendants of current humans could cease to be human by virtue of a history of technical alteration." 23 Other scholars see here a Gothic lineage, making connections in the direction of the model offered by Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the one who made the prototype of a non-human creature, representing in the posthumanist approach a novelty of race, class or genre.…”

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Technological Modification of the Human Body in Neo-Gothic Literature: Prostheses, Hybridization and Cyborgization in Posthumanism

Szabo¹,

Crişan²

2018

CEchinox

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Starting from the premise that the technological modification of human body is a favourite theme in neo-gothic literature, this paper proposes an analysis of the relationship between human and non-human elements in speculative fiction. Interventions on the human body through treatments or prostheses are approached in several fictional works belonging to the canon of the Gothic, to Romanian fantastic literature, and to contemporary SF literature.

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“…28. Manuela Rossini, 2017, “Bodies,” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman , ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 164…”

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Prosthesis and the engineered imagination: reading augmentation and disability across cultural theory, representation and product design

Holt

Murray

2019

Med Humanities

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This article argues for the value of considering the interaction of literary/cultural studies, disability studies and engineering/design studies in the ongoing development of a critical medical humanities research frame. With a specific focus on prosthesis, but also considerations of embodiment, technology and augmentation as concepts in both cultural/disability theory and engineering/design, we note how the shifting and plastic ideas of ‘the prosthetic’ as used within cultural studies have never been in conversation with scholars who work on prostheses in engineering design or the processes through which such technologies are produced. Additionally, we show that the increased use of systems engineering in the design and construction of prostheses creates fractured ideas of disabled bodies that frequently ignore both the cultural meaning and lived experience of technology use. In design and engineering, prostheses are literal objects, often made to order for a diverse range of clients and produced across different working platforms; in cultural studies, the word creates multiple resonances around both augmented bodies and non-embodied states increasingly understood in terms of assemblage and supplementarity. Working from this, we outline how questions of metaphor, materiality and systems weave through the different disciplines. The article claims that a critical dialogue between the working methods of literary/cultural studies and engineering/design, for all their obvious differences, possesses the potential to create informed and sophisticated accounts of disability embodiment. Our conclusion brings the strands of the enquiry together and points to the merits of engineering the imagination, and imagining engineering, as both a subject and method in future medical humanities research.

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Bodies

Cited by 8 publications

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Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Technological Modification of the Human Body in Neo-Gothic Literature: Prostheses, Hybridization and Cyborgization in Posthumanism

Prosthesis and the engineered imagination: reading augmentation and disability across cultural theory, representation and product design

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